A three-fold development of Old English y in Middle Kentish place-names
ISSN: 1133-0392
Year of publication: 2002
Issue: 10
Pages: 139-156
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios ingleses de la Universidad Complutense
Abstract
The intention of the present dialectal research is to contribute to a better knowledge of Middle Kentish, traditionally regarded as a Middle English dialect in which sounds and linguistic changes behave differently. This will be done through the formal analysis of Old English , dialectally relevant in Kentish, in medieval place-names. Name-forms provide, according to different authors, real information about the behaviour of certain phonological distinctions whose evidence has only been attested in these forms. Consequently, I will focus on the analysis of this onomastic material to contrast my own conclusions with other place-name studies,...