Open AccessOld Icelandic consonant lengthening rule and modern Icelandic infixation of /d/
Author(s) -
Janez Orešnik
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2350-420X
pISSN - 0024-3922
DOI - 10.4312/linguistica.13.1.229-261
Subject(s) - icelandic , consonant , phonological rule , linguistics , component (thermodynamics) , task (project management) , philosophy , mathematics , history , phonology , economics , physics , vowel , thermodynamics , management
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.