ENG385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Proto-Indo-European Language, English Verbs, Nominative Case
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Eng385 old english morphology: morphology (word endings) in old english. In pde: plural word endings only, usually s as in hats: oe plural: some word w/ n like oxen; many zero-plurals like sheep, others like foot/feet, gender in oe grammar: non-gendered objects have gender as in french, german. Functions of different cases in old english as opposed to pde: functions of the nominative case in old english. Indicates subject-hood: oe subjects took the nominative case: also i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ates (cid:862)su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts:(cid:863) (cid:374)ou(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d adje(cid:272)ti(cid:448)es after li(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g (cid:448)er(cid:271)s, says something about the identity or description of the subject (cf. Because the weak were carried over from germanic: suppletive verbs (forms from unrelated sources): be/was, etc, generally more inflection is old english, namely for number, tense, person (gender) Broad categories of conjugation in oe: strong, weak, and suppletive: e(cid:454)e(cid:373)plar of a stro(cid:374)g (cid:448)er(cid:271) fro(cid:373) old e(cid:374)glish: (cid:862)to (cid:373)elt(cid:863)
