Anna Wojtys: 1 book
The Non-Surviving Preterite-Present Verbs in English
The Demise of *dugan, munan, *-nugan, *þurfan, and unnan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of their distribution in Old and Middle English. The subsequent comparison of the forms and uses of the preterite-presents in the two periods...
