home Study Guide: Old English II
  • Inflection
  • Gmc /k/ --> OE [k], [ch]
  • Gmc /g/ --> OE [g], [¥], [j]
  • Gmc /sk/ --> OE [sh]
  • Gmc /gg/ --> OE [dj]
  • New phonemes
  • Double consonants (e.g. "dd")
  • Gmc /h/ --> OE [h],[ç],[x]
  • OE "hw", "kn", "gn"
  • Breaking
  • Palatal Diphthongization
  • I-Umlaut
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  • Morphological effect of umlaut (foot,feet)
  • Dialects
  • West Saxon
  • eWS > lWS
  • Anglian (Mercian, Northumbrian)
  • Kentish
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    ISSUES:
    1. West Gmc breaking
    2.Social mechanisms of language change (why shift accent?)
    3. I-umlaut, I-umlaut, I-umlaut