Old Icelandic consonant lengthening rule and modern Icelandic infixation of /d/

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  • Janez Orešnik

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https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.13.1.229-261

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Old Icelandic consonant lengthening rule and modern Icelandic infixation of /d/

Abstract

Old Icelandic had a Consonant Lengthening Rule in its morphological component, whose task was to lengthen postvocalic stem final l, n, s in certain inflexional forms, e.g. in the nom. sg. stóll of stól- "chair". The rule is formulated in § 1.1, and illustrated in § 1.2, where some of its exceptions are listed as well. The formulation of the rule presented in § 1.1 is defended· in some detail in § 1.3.In § 1.4 the ordering relations of the rule are discussed (it operates earlier than any phonological rule), and in § 1.5 its gradual disappearance from the language is described.

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Published

01.12.1973

How to Cite

Orešnik, J. (1973). Old Icelandic consonant lengthening rule and modern Icelandic infixation of /d/. Linguistica, 13(1), 229–261. https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.13.1.229-261

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