Abstract
ABSTRACT Various technical terms concerning the internal structure of English words refer to the fact that parts of the original version of a word have been cut off or lost: aphesis, clipping, aphaeresis, elision, and many others. This paper focuses on the role of aphesis and aphaeresis in Late Modern English (LModE) dialects. The paper’s main aim is a close-up investigation of the specific conditioning factors. Given that aphesis and aphaeresis have been particularly relevant in English dialects and that they are therefore more than an aspect of style and colloquial speech, the paper will discuss the linguistic, in particular, the phonological/phonotactic and morphological rules involved, thus filling an obvious gap in the state of the art. In contrast to most previous publications, this study is corpus-based, with all data coming from EDD Online 3.0, the new digitised version of Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary.
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