A Grammar of Old English – Volume 2 – Morphology

The late Richard M. Hogg was Professor of English Language at the University of Manchester. He was the General Editor of the Cambridge History of the English Language and author, with C. B. McCully, of Metrical Phonology: A Coursebook (1987), and editor, with David Denison, of A History of the English Language (2008). R. D. Fulk is Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University. His books include The Origins of Indo-European Quantitative Ablaut (1986), A History of Old English Meter (1992), and as editor, with Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, 4th Edition (2008).

Preface. Acknowledgments. List of abbreviations. 1. Preliminaries. 2. Nouns: Stem Classes. I Early backgrounds (??1?9). II Vocalic stems (??10?77). 1 a -stem nouns (??10?33). (a) Simple a -stems (??11?18). (b) ja -stems (??19?26). (c) wa -stems (??27?33). 2 o- stem nouns (??34?54). (a) Simple o- stems (??35?44). (b) j o- stems (??45?51). (c) w o -stems (??52?4). 3 i -stem nouns (??55?70). 4 u -stem nouns (??71?7). III Consonantal stems (??78?114). 1 n -stem nouns (??78?90). (a) on -stems (??80?7). (b) in -stems (??88?90). 2 r -stem nouns (??91?4). 3 s -stem nouns (??95?101). 4 ? -stem nouns (??102?3). 5 nd -stem nouns (??104?8). 6 Root-stem nouns (??109?14). 3. Nouns: Declensions. I Introduction (??1?6). II as -declension (??7?72). 1 Inflexions (??8?11). 2 Allomorphic variation (??12?72). (a) Restoration of a (??14?17). (b) Palatalization (??18?20). (c) Back umlaut (??21?4). (d) Loss of [h] (??25?9). (e) Devoicing (??30?1). (f) Nominative singular in - e (??32?8). (g) Geminate consonants (??39?41). (h) Nominative singular in - u (?42). (i) Nominative singular in - w (??43?9). (j) Apocope (??50?1). (k) Double plurals (??52?5). (l) Disyllabic nouns (??56?72). III a -declension (??73?104). 1 Inflexions (??74?80). 2 Allomorphic variation (??81?104). (a) Restoration of a (??83?4). (b) Palatalization (?85). (c) Back umlaut (??86?7). (d) Loss of [h] and final devoicing (??88?9). (e) Geminate consonants (??90?1). (f) Stem-final /w/ (??92?4). (g) Apocope (??95?9). (h) Disyllabic nouns (??100?4). IV an -declension (??105?16). 1 Inflexions (??106?15). 2 Allomorphic variation (?116). V Minor declensions (??117?31). 1 Minor a -plurals (??117?21). 2 Mutation plurals (??122?7). 3 Miscellanea (??128?31). VI Gender and declension (??132?43). 1 Gender (??133?9). 2 Declension (??140?3). VII Nominal compounding (??144?7). 4. Adjectives, Adverbs and Numerals. I Introduction (??1?3). II Indefinite (strong) adjectives (??4?56). 1 Historical origins (??4?8). 2 Inflexions (??9?20). 3 Allomorphic variation (??21?56). (a) Restoration of a (??22?4). (b) Loss of [x] (??25?30). (c) Nominative singular in - e (??31?5). (d) Geminate consonants (??36?7). (e) Nominative singular masculine in - u (??38?9). (f) Nominative singular in - w (?40). (g) Apocope (??41?3). (h) Disyllabic and polysyllabic stems (??44?52). (i) Past participles (??53?6). III Definite (weak) adjectives (??57?60). 1 Historical origins and inflexions (??57?9). 2 Allomorphic variation (?60). IV Comparison of adjectives (??61?75). 1 Historical origins (??61?4). 2 Variation in Old English (??65?75). V Adverbs (??76?9). VI Numerals (??80?91). 1 Cardinals (??80?9). 2 Ordinals (??90?1). 5. Pronouns. I Introduction (??1?2). II Demonstrative pronouns (??3?13). III The anaphoric pronoun (??14?17). IV Interrogative pronouns (??18?21). V Personal pronouns (??22?32). VI Indefinite pronouns (??33?7). VII Other pronominal types (??38?9). 6. Verbs. I Early background (??1?5). II Strong verbs (??6?76). 1 Inflexions (??6?30). (a) Indicative present (??11?20). (b) Indicative preterite (??21?2). (c) Subjunctive (??23?5). (d) Imperative (?26). (e) Non-finite forms (??27?30). 2 Stems (??31?76). (a) Ablaut patterns (??33?6). (b) Variant stem types (??37?42). (i) Weak presents (?37). (ii) Contracted verbs (??38?41). (iii) Alternations under Verner?s Law (?42). (c) Classes of strong verbs (??43?76). (i) Class 1 (??43?6). (ii) Class 2 (??47?50). (iii) Class 3 (??51?7). (iv) Class 4 (??58?60). (v) Class 5 (??61?4). (vi) Class 6 (??65?8). (vii) Class 7 (??69?76). III Weak verbs (??77?130). 1 Weak class I (??78?103). (a) Inflexions (??80?8). (b) Stems (??89?103). (i) Stems with original geminate (?92). (ii) Stems in dental consonant (??93?5). (iii) Stems in original final sonorant (??96?8). (iv) Contracted verbs with loss of [h] (?99). (v) Stems in final velar consonant (??100?3). 2 Weak class II (??104?20). (a) Inflexions (??106?13). (b) Stems (??114?20). 3 Weak class III (??121?30). (a) Inflexions (?122?6). (b) Stems (??127?30). IV Preterite-present verbs (??131?44). 1 Inflexion and classes (??132?40). (a) Classes 1 and 2 (??133?4). (b) Class 3 (??135?6). (c) Classes 4 and 5 (??137?8). (d) Classes 6 and 7 (??139?40). 2 Historical development (??141?4). V Athematic verbs (??145?63). 1 The verb b eon , wesan (??146?51). 2 The verb d on (??152?5). 3 The verb g an (??156?9). 4 The verb willan (??160?3). References. Word index. Subject Index.