The Malt stone as a witness of a morphological archaism: Reconstructing the Proto-Nordic and Proto-Germanic systems of kinship terms
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The Malt stone as a witness of a morphological archaism : Reconstructing the Proto-Nordic and Proto-Germanic systems of kinship terms. / Heltoft, Lars.
I: N O W E L E, Bind 73, Nr. 1, 04.2020, s. 4-21.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The Malt stone as a witness of a morphological archaism
T2 - Reconstructing the Proto-Nordic and Proto-Germanic systems of kinship terms
AU - Heltoft, Lars
PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - The form fauþr ‘father’ on the Malt stone is normally understood as a carving error for faþur, but could very well be read at face value as a one-syllable form fǫðr, an archaic accusative singular. In a wider Proto-Germanic context, I suggest that this form is part of an early levelling process of the kinship terms to one-syllable stem forms, an alternative paradigm co-existing with the classical hystero-dynamic paradigm documented in the Gothic singular. This levelling takes place not only in the plural, but also in the oblique cases of the singular. In a Scandinavian context, this reading sheds light on a handful of seemingly aberrant forms.
AB - The form fauþr ‘father’ on the Malt stone is normally understood as a carving error for faþur, but could very well be read at face value as a one-syllable form fǫðr, an archaic accusative singular. In a wider Proto-Germanic context, I suggest that this form is part of an early levelling process of the kinship terms to one-syllable stem forms, an alternative paradigm co-existing with the classical hystero-dynamic paradigm documented in the Gothic singular. This levelling takes place not only in the plural, but also in the oblique cases of the singular. In a Scandinavian context, this reading sheds light on a handful of seemingly aberrant forms.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Maltstenen
KW - slægtskabstermer
KW - urnordisk
KW - urgermansk
KW - gotisk
KW - analogi
KW - paradigmekonstruktion
KW - paradigmer
KW - kinship terms, Proto-Norse, Proto-Germanic, runic, paradigmatic levelling, Malt Stone
U2 - 10.1075/nowele.00031.hel
DO - 10.1075/nowele.00031.hel
M3 - Journal article
VL - 73
SP - 4
EP - 21
JO - NOWELE
JF - NOWELE
SN - 0108-8416
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 195350821