This paper focuses on the comments by linguists from the years 1700-1900 on the stressing of disyllabic noun/verb pairs with Romance prefixes. The stress distinction in these doublets, i.e. first-syllable stress of the nouns and second-syllable stress of the verbs, called a "peculiarity of accentuation" by John Walker (1826), originated in Proto-Germanic but had been disrupted in Middle English when noun/verb pairs with French prefixes and French stress were introduced into English. The nouns in these foreign doublets began to copy the Germanic pattern, but it was a slow process, and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a large number of loans with fluctuating stress. 200 disyllabic noun/verb pairs with Romance prefixes have been examined, and some of the comments on the stressing of these doublets made in dictionaries, grammars and pronunciation handbooks published in the period 1700-1900 will be discussed.
Questo articolo si concentra sui commenti espressi dai linguisti nel periodo 1700-1900 sull’accentuazione dei sostantivi e verbi disillabici con prefissi di origine romanza. La distinzione nell’accentuazione di queste coppie, sulla prima sillaba nel caso dei sostantivi e sulla seconda nel caso dei verbi, definita un’accentuazione ‘peculiare’ da John Walker (1826), si era originata in Proto-Germanico, ma era stata distorta in medio inglese, con l’introduzione di coppie di sostantivi e verbi di origine francese, e dunque con un’accentuazione romanza. Lentamente, i sostantivi si adeguarono all’accentuazione germanica, ma nel 18° e 19° secolo si osservano numerosi casi di fluttuazione fra i due modelli. Per questo studio sono state esaminate 200 coppie di verbi e sostantivi disillabici con prefissi romanzi; verranno inoltre discussi i commenti espressi sulla loro accentuazione nei dizionari, grammatiche e manuali di pronuncia pubblicati fra il 1700 e il 1900.
(2003). A peculiarity of accentuation - On the Stressing of Disyllabic Noun/Verb Pairs in Late Modern English [journal article - articolo]. In LINGUISTICA E FILOLOGIA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/240
A peculiarity of accentuation - On the Stressing of Disyllabic Noun/Verb Pairs in Late Modern English
2003-01-01
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This paper focuses on the comments by linguists from the years 1700-1900 on the stressing of disyllabic noun/verb pairs with Romance prefixes. The stress distinction in these doublets, i.e. first-syllable stress of the nouns and second-syllable stress of the verbs, called a "peculiarity of accentuation" by John Walker (1826), originated in Proto-Germanic but had been disrupted in Middle English when noun/verb pairs with French prefixes and French stress were introduced into English. The nouns in these foreign doublets began to copy the Germanic pattern, but it was a slow process, and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a large number of loans with fluctuating stress. 200 disyllabic noun/verb pairs with Romance prefixes have been examined, and some of the comments on the stressing of these doublets made in dictionaries, grammars and pronunciation handbooks published in the period 1700-1900 will be discussed.File | Dimensione del file | Formato | |
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