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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1D1D1D"></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">Dear all,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1D1D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#440044">Elisa Ramírez Pérez</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">(Leiden
University) will present a paper entitled<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#440044">“Morphological simplification in the late Northumbrian dialect: the case of weak verbs class
II”</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#440044"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">(abstract below).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1D1D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">Petros</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1D1D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#440044">Morphological simplification in the late Northumbrian dialect: the case of weak verbs class II</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1D1D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">My paper will present the results of my doctoral thesis concerning the state of the second class of Old English weak verbs in the Northumbrian glosses to the Lindisfarne
Gospels. In particular, my paper will examine the ultimate deletion of these verbs’ characteristic stem formative vowel, namely the -i- formative. Although the loss of this medial vowel is generally considered to be a Middle English characteristic (Lass, 2006:
127-128; Thomason and Kaufman 1988: 293), the evidence presented in this paper will point towards an earlier and geographically-specific start to this simplification process, since it will be seen that the late Northumbrian glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels
display a rather advanced stage of -i- deletion, especially when compared to more Southern texts, as exemplified by data from the Old Mercian glosses to the Rushworth Gospels.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1D1D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">The early loss of the -i- formative in weak verbs class II as evidenced in the Northumbrian dialect is one of the many striking linguistic features proper to this variety.
This morphological development, in fact, tallies with this dialect’s advanced state of linguistic simplification and, in turn, innovation (Jones 1939; Cole 2014; Millar 2016). It is worth noting that the study of English historical linguistics has traditionally
been based on the late West-Saxon dialect, a fact which is not surprising given that the vast majority of extant Old English texts are written in this variety. However, there has been a shift in the scholarly approach to English historical linguistics in recent
years whereby less represented varieties of Old English are being studied in an attempt to offer a more comprehensive and dialect-inclusive account of the history of early English. My paper, therefore, attempts to contribute and add to the body of work focusing
on broadening the spectrum of Old English dialectology.</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Futura Std Book",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1D1D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Futura;color:#3E0028">Dr Petros Karatsareas (he/him/his)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1D1D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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