The history of /-n/ loss in English: Phonotactic change with lexical and grammatical specificity,Folia Linguistica

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The history of /-n/ loss in English: Phonotactic change with lexical and grammatical specificity
Folia Linguistica ( IF 0.6 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 , DOI: 10.1515/flih-2019-0010
Donka Minkova ₁ , Michael Lefkowitz ₂

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Abstract In Old English, /-n/ loss started in early Northumbrian and spread to the southern dialects after about 1050. An important diagnostic of the transition to Middle English, the loss is commonly assumed to be morphologically driven. However, /-n/ loss in atonic syllables could also be phonologically-conditioned: aweġ ‘away’

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