Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði - 01.01.1987, Page 95

Um leyfilegar raÖir ífornu máli og nýju
93
Wagner, Heinrich. 1956. Zu den indogermanischen e-Verben. Zeitschrift fiir celtische
Philologie. Band 25, Heft 3/4.
Wisén, Theodor. 1872. Homiliu-Bók. Islándska Homilier. Efter en handskrift frán tolfte
árhundradet. Utgifna af Theodor Wisén. C W K Gleerups Förlag, Lund.
Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullnch. 1987. Paradigmenstrukturbedingungen: Aufbau und Ver-
anderung von Flexionsparadigmen. Anna Giacalone Ramat, Onofrio Cairuba
& Giuliano Bemini (ritstj.): Papers from the 7th International Conference on
Historical Linguistics, bls. 629-644. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 48. John
Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam.
SUMMARY
This article discusses some vowel deletion rules in various stages of Icelandic. These
rules are operative when a vowel-initial ending is added to a vowel-final stem. In Old
Icelandic, a was dropped afterá; u was dropped after á, 6 and ú; and i was dropped after
é. These rules have been subject to various changes, some of which can be attributed to
changes in the phonology, but others are due to analogy. As a result, the deletion rules
can not be stated as general phonological rules in Modem Icelandic; they must refer to
grammatical features such as part of speech, gender etc. The author shows how these
rules have gradually changed from Old to Modem Icelandic.