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Word division in english SBORNf K PRACf FILOZOFICKE F A K U L T Y BRNF NSKE UNIVERZITY STUDIA MINORA FACULTATIS PHILOSOPHICAE UNIVERSITATIS B R U N E N S I S K - B R N O S T U D I E S IN E N G L I S H NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF WORD DIVISION IN ENGLISH Josef

SBORNf K PRACf FILOZOFICKE F A K U L T Y BRNF NSKE UNIVERZITY STUDIA MINORA FACULTATIS PHILOSOPHICAE UNIVERSITATIS B R U N E N S I S K - B R N O S T U D I E S IN E N G L I S H NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF WORD DIVISION IN ENGLISH Josef Hladky Word division at the end of a line is met with in nearly every written or printed text and the rules governing it in English obviously di ?er from the rules in other languages The present notes however are not concerned with the contemporary rules see Hladky Instead a few observations will be o ?ered on word division in some older texts For the sake of brevity the texts will be referred to by the year in which they were written or the year of publication - The oldest text in which the boundaries of word division have been studied is the Exeter Book When looking at the ends of lines however we must bear in mind the fact that word boundaries within the lines of the manuscript re ect the practices that di ?er from later usage Compounds pre ?xed and derived words are sometimes written as two words' ael mihtig sorg lease a toyrgde ge dringari Grammatical su ?xes are also found separate from the stems us ic dryht nes On the other hand we can ?nd prepositions pronouns the conjunction ond and the negative particle ne written together with the following word wende toworulde Upon sewit ?a song hewaes upp hafen en ?la faedmutn Crist ?? This usage though not systematically applied and the fact that no hyphen was used mean that a case of division at the end of a line may not in fact be a case of division at all because the word might well have been written in two parts even within the line But as we are not concerned here with any statistical analysis of the frequency of word division in ?? we may still use all words divided at the ends of lines in the search for the boundaries of division From what has been said above it is clear that one of the main word-division principles in ?? both at the ends of lines and within the lines is the morpho logical principle Thus we ?nd divisions like geworh-te gehyrw-don dryht-ne sylf-ne min-re all these examples and the examples used further on have been drawn from division at the ends of lines only The morphological principle however does not operate with all endings We ?nd divisions at the end of an open syllable this rule will be referred to as the C V - C V rule e g myce-le gie-fe bto-was and between two consonants the C - C rule e g lon- ge gedrin-gan bear- C-nes singen-de leofes-tan stron-gum swear-tan There are cases where the morpho logical rule and the C-C rule overlap e g the above-mentioned min-