The Germanic Dental Preterite - A Morphological and Semantic Examination

The weak dental preterite is one of the defining features of the Germanic verbal system and is an innovation of the Germanic branch of Proto-Indo-European. This paper aims to examine the likelihood of a Proto-Indo-European construction as the origin of the dental preterite and if any of the relation...

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Main Author: Phoenix, Elizabeth
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/73689/