Learnèdness

Learnèdness may affect all the morphemes in a word, or only the base, or only an affix.

Malkiel, however, “granted in principle the existence of a significant learned transmission of these clusters” (1963-64: 157), so even when the attribution of learnèdness is as statistically dubious as it is with fl- Malkiel felt unable to dispute it.

The first observation to be made about these forms concerns their learnèdness, or at least their learnèdness with these particular stress patterns.

Though occasionally, he inserted a bit of French or English when the context was appropriate, his prose was not inflated with the Latin or Greek tags and snippets that were often superfluous but gave to many 18ᵗʰ-century writers the aura of “learnèdness.”