Northumbrian rounded vowels in the Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels

TY - CHAP

T1 - Northumbrian rounded vowels in the Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels

AU - Wood, Johanna

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - This paper investigates the distribution of mid-front rounded vowels in the Northumbrian glosses to the Lindisfarne gospels. Rounding after /w/ is a dialect feature of late Old Northumbrian. Numerical counts for the distribution of the feature are merged with new data. The goal is to see whether the data support already hypothesized demarcations in the text. The main finding is that the gospel of Luke and the second half of Mark have the most frequent occurrences of this feature and therefore are the most conservative sections of the glosses.

AB - This paper investigates the distribution of mid-front rounded vowels in the Northumbrian glosses to the Lindisfarne gospels. Rounding after /w/ is a dialect feature of late Old Northumbrian. Numerical counts for the distribution of the feature are merged with new data. The goal is to see whether the data support already hypothesized demarcations in the text. The main finding is that the gospel of Luke and the second half of Mark have the most frequent occurrences of this feature and therefore are the most conservative sections of the glosses.

KW - wels; front-rounding; Old English; dialect, Northumbrian; glosses

M3 - Book chapter

SP - 167

EP - 183

BT - A sound approach to language matters

A2 - Nyvad,, Anne Mette

A2 - Hejná, Michaela

A2 - Højen, Anders

A2 - Bothe Jespersen , Anna

A2 - Hjortshøj Sørensen, Mette

PB - AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services

CY - Aarhus

ER -