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      Levelling and Rule Restructuring in Old English Adjectives

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      Indo-European Linguistics
      Brill
      Old English, adjectives, alternations, levelling, rule restructuring

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          Abstract

          The distribution of short low vowels in West Saxon Old English adjectives cannot be explained entirely by levelling of surface forms and does not reflect lengthening in open syllables. A combination of levelling and rule restructuring is needed to account for the observed pattern.

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          Contributors
          Journal
          22125892
          Indo-European Linguistics
          IEUL
          Brill (The Netherlands )
          2212-5884
          2212-5892
          2015
          : 3
          : 1
          : 73-83
          Affiliations
          University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA dringe@ 123456sas.upenn.edu
          Article
          10.1163/22125892-00301001
          fe053802-0c3d-4c5f-8b36-917214306143
          Copyright 2015 by Don Ringe

          This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) License.

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          Social & Behavioral Sciences,Law
          Old English,adjectives,alternations,levelling,rule restructuring
          Social & Behavioral Sciences, Law
          Old English, adjectives, alternations, levelling, rule restructuring

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