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• W335812976 abstract "ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to present the process of functional reanalysis that took place in the adjectival systems of West Midland and Southwestern dialects. The process is manifested in the interplay between case and gender marking, which is regarded an intermediate stage in the process of adjectival disintegration in Early Middle English. It is demonstrated that the formerly gender specific inflectional endings were reanalyzed to serve new functions case markers in the aforementioned dialectal areas. An investigation into the dialectal distribution of the process reveals that prior to the loss of case and gender marking in West Midland and Southwestern dialects gender specific endings were reinterpreted to serve case functions. 1. Aims of the study The aim of this paper is to present the process of functional reanalysis that took place in the adjectival systems of West Midland and Southwestern dialects. This process is manifested in the interplay between case and gender marking, which will be regarded an intermediate stage in the process of adjectival disintegration in Early Middle English. It will be demonstrated that the formerly gender specific inflectional endings were reanalyzed to serve new functions case markers in the aforementioned dialectal areas. The stimulus for the present study stems from the oversimplified presentation of the adjectival disintegration process in previous literature. It is generally acknowledged that the relatively sophisticated inflectional system of Old English adjectives was drastically in transition to the Middle English period. For instance, Welna (1996), among others, points to the fact that in Middle English as a consequence of changes shared with nouns, first of all the reduction of unaccented syl lables and analogical leveling, the five-case system of adjectives became extensively simplified (Welna 1996: 93). Another standard observation regarding the disintegration of the adjectival system is the retention of a few relic inflections in the dialects of the South and Midlands. For instance, Fisiak (1968 [1996]: 78) remarks that: At the start of Middle English some traces of older adjectival inflection can be found in the Southern and Midland dialects, {-ne} in ale-ne acc. 'each', {-re} in age-re gen.-dat. 'own', {-re} in al-re gen.pl. 'all', and {-en} for all cases and genders except the nominative singular, in halech-en 'holy'. It appears that standard accounts of the process distinguish merely one stage in the loss of adjectival inflectional markers, namely the shift from the richly inflected system inherited from Old English to the highly invariable system of Middle English with some relic forms preserved in some dialects. However, an investigation into the dialectal distribution of the process reveals that prior to the loss of case and gender marking in West Midland and Southwestern dialects gender specific endings were reinterpreted to serve case functions. 2. The data The data for the present study comes from texts of West Midland and Southwestern provenance. The reason for such a choice was the condition of the adjectival system in those dialects. In both dialectal areas the EME adjectival system still preserved a large portion of the older inflectional markers, which could provide input for the process of reanalysis. In East Midland texts the adjectival system is already reduced to such an extent that the gender specific markers are largely absent. For instance, Allen (1995: 213) postulated the complete loss of the category of the dative in the Ormulum, a category in which gender distinctive endings were used for the feminine in Old English. Yet another East Midland text, the Peterborough Chronicle, is devoid of any gender marking observed by Clark (1957: 113), or Allen (1995: 183). The work of Ofverberg (1924), who conducted a detailed analysis of the adjectival forms in the texts of the East Midland area, confirms the lack of adjectival gender marking. …" @default.
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