The Semantics of Morphological Conversion in Old English
The present article is an empirical, data-oriented study which focuses on the problem of morphological conversion and the way this mechanism was employed in Old English as a way of deriving new lexemes. The article briefly discusses the quantitative characteristics of the attested types, presents pa...
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| description | The present article is an empirical, data-oriented study which focuses on the problem of morphological conversion and the way this mechanism was employed in Old English as a way of deriving new lexemes. The article briefly discusses the quantitative characteristics of the attested types, presents patterns of directionality and estimates the degree of availability of conversion in Old English grammar. The main part and purpose of the study, however, concerns the semantic characteristics of conversions sampled in the corpus. Drawing on the framework of semantic categories formulated by Clark and Clark (1979) and Plag (2003), the study aims to demonstrate semantic effects of the so-called zero-affix in Old English by looking into the relation that holds between the motivating base and the resultant derivative. Despite the fact that the availability of conversion was still quite limited in the Old English period, possibly due to numerous inflections that may have inhibited the transparency of this process, the study allows us to see how this process emerged and subsequently developed into one of the most productive word-formational techniques in the English language. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5f0c6bf3ce6f4b24a45987a3b3db46472022-12-21T19:53:51ZengInstitute of English StudiesAnglica. An International Journal of English Studies0860-57342021-09-01302335210.7311/0860-5734.30.2.02The Semantics of Morphological Conversion in Old EnglishAleksandra Kalaga0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5263-3155University of SilesiaThe present article is an empirical, data-oriented study which focuses on the problem of morphological conversion and the way this mechanism was employed in Old English as a way of deriving new lexemes. The article briefly discusses the quantitative characteristics of the attested types, presents patterns of directionality and estimates the degree of availability of conversion in Old English grammar. The main part and purpose of the study, however, concerns the semantic characteristics of conversions sampled in the corpus. Drawing on the framework of semantic categories formulated by Clark and Clark (1979) and Plag (2003), the study aims to demonstrate semantic effects of the so-called zero-affix in Old English by looking into the relation that holds between the motivating base and the resultant derivative. Despite the fact that the availability of conversion was still quite limited in the Old English period, possibly due to numerous inflections that may have inhibited the transparency of this process, the study allows us to see how this process emerged and subsequently developed into one of the most productive word-formational techniques in the English language.morphological conversionword-formationzero derivationold englishmorphology |
| spellingShingle | Aleksandra Kalaga The Semantics of Morphological Conversion in Old English Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies morphological conversion word-formation zero derivation old english morphology |
| title | The Semantics of Morphological Conversion in Old English |
| title_full | The Semantics of Morphological Conversion in Old English |
| title_fullStr | The Semantics of Morphological Conversion in Old English |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Semantics of Morphological Conversion in Old English |
| title_short | The Semantics of Morphological Conversion in Old English |
| title_sort | semantics of morphological conversion in old english |
| topic | morphological conversion word-formation zero derivation old english morphology |
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