Studies in Old English and Germanic Historical Morphology: Paradigmatic Splits in the Evolution of the Verb *ƀūja- ‘dwell’

• Autores: Aurelijus Vijunas
• Localización: Historische Sprachforschung = Historical linguistics, ISSN 0935-3518, Nº. 135, 2022, págs. 283-307
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • In this article, I discuss the evolution of the Old English verbs bēon ‘be’, būan, būgian, bōgian, and bȳa ‘dwell’, proposing that all of these verbs have developed via a series of paradigmatic splits which occurred at different periods of time. It is also suggested in this article that the Proto-Germanic verb generally reconstructed as *ƀūja- ‘dwell’ instead may have had the shape *ƀi̯w a-, reflecting not the Proto-Indo-European j-present *bhuH-i̯e-, but the j-less aorist subjunctive *bhuH-e-.