HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2013 CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE – Series IV issn 0304-0763 General Editor E.F.K. KOERNER Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin
[email protected] Associate Editor JOSEPH C. SALMONS University of Wisconsin-Madison Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT) is a theory-oriented series which welcomes contributions from scholars who have significant proposals to make towards the advancement of our understanding of language, its structure, functioning and development. CILT has been established in order to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of linguistic opinions of scholars who do not necessarily accept the prevailing mode of thought in linguistic science. It offers an outlet for meaningful contributions to the current linguistic debate, and furnishes the diversity of opinion which a healthy discipline must have. A complete list of titles in this series can be found on http://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt Advisory Editorial Board Sheila Embleton (Toronto) Elly van Gelderen (Tempe, Ariz.) John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin) Martin Maiden (Oxford) Martha Ratliff (Detroit, Mich.) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.) Klaas Willems (Ghent) Volume 334 Historical Linguistics 2013. Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5–9 August 2013 Edited by Dag T.T. Haug HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2013 SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, OSLO, 5–9 AUGUST 2013 Edited by DAG T.T. HAUG University of Oslo With the assistance of EIRÍKUR KRISTJÁNSSON JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM & PHILADELPHIA 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. doi 10.1075/cilt.334 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: lccn 2015022837 (print) / 2015027492 (e-book) isbn 978 90 272 4853 4 (hb) isbn 978 90 272 6818 1 (e-book) © 2015 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · https://benjamins.com Table of contents Introduction Dag Trygve Truslew Haug vii Section I. Phonology A phonological motivation behind the diatonic stress shift in Modern English Ryuichi Hotta 3 Vowel reduction in verbs in King Alfred’s Pastoral Care Sverre Stausland Johnsen 19 The development of early Middle English ō: Spell