Transitivising Mechanisms In Old English
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Transitivising Mechanisms in Old English
Author | : Esaúl Ruiz Narbona |
Publsiher | : utzverlag GmbH |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783831648726 |
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Based on the surviving Old English textual material, as well as on Old English dictionaries and the relevant literature, this work studies the role of preverbs (eg. Byrnan, ābyrnan, forbyrnan, gebyrnan, onbyrnan) as a transitivising mechanism under the scope of the Cardinal Transitivity approach. Focus is laid on Old English morphological causative pairs that show signs of lability, i.e. verbs that can function transitively or intransitively with no morphological marking. This work has two main objectives. On the one hand, to examine to what extent preverbs may influence the valence of verbs that are ambivalent from the point of view of their valence as well as to shed light on the effects preverbs may have on other parameters of transitivity such as telicity or affectedness. On the other hand, this book also explores a rather neglected topic so far: the interaction of preverbs and the Germanic morphological causative marker -jan as transitivising mechanisms in Old English.
Participial Prepositions and Conjunctions in the History of English
Author | : Michael Skiba |
Publsiher | : utzverlag GmbH |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783831648474 |
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Participial prepositions and conjunctions such as considering, during, considered and except are a comparatively recent phenomenon in the history of the English language. They originated in the intense language contact situation between Anglo-French and Middle English in late medieval England. In this book, it is shown that the development is part of a long process of typological change both in the Romance languages and in the English language. Through language contact a productive pattern has been established in English, which still produces new participial prepositions today (e.g. following, based on and looking at). Participial prepositions and conjunctions therefore clearly illustrate the mechanisms and consequences of language change through intense language contact.
Historical Linguistics 2015
Author | : Michela Cennamo,Claudia Fabrizio |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 649 |
Release | : 2019-09-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027262455 |
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The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v) diachronic typology, (vi) semantics and pragmatics, and (vii) language contact, variation and diffusion. The topics discussed, often in a comparative perspective, feature a variety of languages and language families and cover a wide range of research areas. Novel analyses and often new diachronic data — also from less known and under-investigated languages — are provided to the debate on the principles, mechanisms, paths and models of language change, as well as the relationship between synchronic variation and diachrony. The volume is of interest to scholars of different persuasions working on all aspects of language change.
Deconstructing Constructions
Author | : Christopher Butler,Javier Martín Arista |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027205742 |
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Experts in functional linguistics and in Construction Grammar approaches explore the concept of construction, what it is, and what roles constructions play in the frameworks which can be located within a multidimensional functional-cognitive space. The volume also plots the developments which led to recent models.
The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb particle Combination
Author | : Marion Elenbaas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105114844504 |
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Origins of the Greek Verb
Author | : Andreas Willi |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 747 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781107195554 |
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This book traces the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language to the period of the first Greek texts.
External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
Author | : Artemis Alexiadou,Elena Anagnostopoulou,Florian Schäfer |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-01-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780191664977 |
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This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative alternation, which the authors take to be a Voice alternation, and the formation of adjectival participles. The authors use data principally from English, German, and Greek to demonstrate that the presence of anticausative morphology does not have any truth-conditional effects, but that marked anticausatives involve more structure than their unmarked counterparts. This morphology is therefore argued to be associated with a semantically inert Voice head that the authors call 'expletive Voice'. The authors also propose that passive formation is not identical across languages, and that the distinction between target vs. result state participles is crucial in understanding the contribution of Voice in adjectival passives. The book provides the tools required to investigate the morphosyntactic structure of verbs and participles, and to identify the properties of verbal alternations across languages. It will be of interest to theoretical linguists from graduate level upwards, particularly those specializing in morphosyntax and typology.
Valency over Time
Author | : Silvia Luraghi,Elisa Roma |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2021-10-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110755718 |
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Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on valency, i.e. the description of valency patterns as worked out in the Leipzig Valency Classes Project (ValPaL), and the assessment of a language's basic valency and its possible orientation. Notably, the ValPaL does not provide diachronic information concerning the valency patterns investigated: one of the aims of the book is to supplement the available data with data from historical stages of languages, in order to make it profitably exploitable for diachronic research. In addition, new research on the diachrony of basic valency and valency alternations can deepen our understanding of mechanisms of language change and of the propensity of languages or language families to exploit different constructional patterns related to transitivity.