Verbs Of Motion In Medieval English

Author : Michiko Ogura
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0859917681

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Verbs of Motion in Medieval English by Michiko Ogura Pdf

The investigation of the medieval uses of verbs of motion remains important for a view of the syntactic development of the English language; this present study covers most of the functional features found in medieval English contexts. Verbs of motion are ordinary words, for which cognates can be found among Germanic languages, but the choice of words as renderings of the Latin verbs can be different. These linguistic developments are clarified in chapters on: The Rivalry among Synonyms, The Reflexive Construction, "Impersonal" Uses of Verbs of Motion, Verbs with Preposed or Postposed Elements, Verbs of Motion as Auxiliaries, Present and Past Participles of Verbs of Motion, and Loan Verbs of Motion. MICHIKO OGURA is Professor of English at Chiba University, Japan.

Author : Judith Huber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
ISBN : 0190657839

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Motion and the English Verb by Judith Huber Pdf

This work is a study of how motion is expressed in medieval English. It provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English

Author : Michiko Ogura
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110823646

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Verbs in Medieval English by Michiko Ogura Pdf

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Author : Robert E. Lewis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0472012169

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Middle English Dictionary by Robert E. Lewis Pdf

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies

Author : Judith Huber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190657826

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Motion and the English Verb by Judith Huber Pdf

In Motion and the English Verb, a study of the expression of motion in medieval English, Judith Huber provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English, and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English. Huber demonstrates how several non-motion verbs receive contextual motion meanings through their use in the intransitive motion construction. In addition, she analyzes which verbs and structures are employed most frequently in talking about motion in select Old and Middle English texts, demonstrating that while satellite-framing is stable, the extent of manner-conflation is influenced by text type and style. Huber further investigates how in the intertypological contact with medieval French, a range of French path verbs (entrer, issir, descendre, etc.) were incorporated into Middle English, in whose system of motion encoding they are semantically unusual. Their integration into Middle English is studied in an innovative approach which analyzes their usage contexts in autonomous Middle English texts as opposed to translations from French and Latin. Huber explains how these verbs were initially borrowed not for expressing general literal motion, but in more specific, often metaphorical and abstract contexts. Her study is a diachronic contribution to the typology of motion encoding, and advances research on the process of borrowing and loanword integration.

Author : Irén Heged?s,Alexandra Fodor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273192

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English Historical Linguistics 2010 by Irén Heged?s,Alexandra Fodor Pdf

The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed, revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), held in August 2010 at the University of Pécs, Hungary. This selection aims to show how theoretical and empirical approaches can be combined in the historical investigation of the English language, what insights and exact information can be obtained about language change in the history of English with the help of tools like historical corpora or with inter- and transdisciplinary methods. The volume is arranged around five thematic headings. The first discusses dialects and regional variation from the viewpoint of contact linguistics and phonological, morphological, and lexical change. The second has syntactic variation and grammaticalization as its focus. Papers on grammatical changes in nominal and pronominal constructions are presented in part three. The integration of loanwords in Middle English is discussed in part four, and the last investigates communicative intentions in historical discourse. The volume should appeal to linguists interested in historical aspects of dialect and discourse studies, historical pragmatics, contact linguistics, grammaticalization theory, corpus linguistics, and of course language change.

Author : Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251609

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English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 by Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

Author : Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265364

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Motion and Space across Languages by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano Pdf

This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event descriptions and their role in typological variation, the function of linguistic multimodal structures for the codification of motion, the diachronic evolution of motion expressions and its effects on motion typologies, the correspondences between physical and non-physical (fictive, metaphorical) motion, and the impact of contexts and genres on the characterization and interpretation of motion events. These issues are examined from a theoretical and applied linguistic perspective (L1–L2 acquisition, translation/interpreting). The analyses make use of diachronic and synchronic data collected by a range of methods (elicitation, experimentation, and corpus research) in more than fifteen languages. All in all, this book will be of great value to scholars and students interested in the expression of motion and space across languages.

Author : Nikolaos Lavidas,Alexander Bergs,Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527559684

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The Naxos Papers, Volume I by Nikolaos Lavidas,Alexander Bergs,Elly van Gelderen Pdf

This volume synthesizes recent approaches to the study of historical English and long-established philological scholarship. Using this synthesis, it casts doubt upon the old antagonisms between modern linguistics and traditional approaches, and makes the historical study of English accessible to scholars and students of both backgrounds. This book brings together 10 studies on various characteristics of the historical development of English, and mainly Old and Middle English, first presented in workshops at the “Old and Middle English” and “Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe” summer schools, organized in Naxos, Greece. It includes studies derived from the first four workshops: “New Approaches to the History of Early English(es)” I, II and III and “Language Change in Indo-European” I. The first part of the volume emphasizes the synchronic description of syntactic, morphological and semantic features of Old English, while the second section emphasizes explanations of the development of various features of English, starting with Old English.

Author : Laura García Fernández
Publisher : utzverlag GmbH
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783831648214

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Lemmatising Old English on a relational database by Laura García Fernández Pdf

This work contributes to the research in the linguistic analysis of Old English with corpus-based lexical databases. In the specific area of Old English, which presents numerous morphological variations and lacks a written standard, a lemmatised corpus is necessary. Thus, the aim of this work is to lemmatise part of the verbal lexicon of Old English, combining aspects of Morphology, Lexicography and Corpus Analysis. The scope is restricted to the most morphologically complex verbal classes of Old English, including irregular verbs and reduplicative verbs, which comprise preterite-present, anomalous, contracted and strong VII verbs. This aim requires, firstly, the selection and management of the sources of data and verification of results; and secondly, the design and sequencing of the steps of the lemmatisation tasks. This research also raises the issue of the automatisation of the process of lemmatisation of Old English verbs, on which little previous literature has been found. In conclusion, this work offers an inventory of inflectional forms and lemmas of the verbs under analysis. On the applied side, this work presents different procedures of automatic and manual lemmatisation that can be applied to the fields of Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics.

Author : Renate Bauer,Christine Elsweiler,Ulrike Krischke,Kerstin Majewski
Publisher : utzverlag GmbH
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783831649969

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Travelling Texts – Texts Travelling by Renate Bauer,Christine Elsweiler,Ulrike Krischke,Kerstin Majewski Pdf

This Gedenkschrift celebrates the memory of Professor Hans Sauer and his passion for travelling. The contributions in this volume explore different kinds of textual and temporal travels from various linguistic, literary, and philological perspectives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047444619

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Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England by Anonim Pdf

The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between medieval linguistics and medieval cultural studies generally. Articles address medieval English linguistics, and the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401203722

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The Power of Words by Anonim Pdf

This volume comprises essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics by leading international experts in these fields. The contributions cover Old, Middle and Present-Day English and Scots, and specific subjects include medical vocabulary, colour lexemes, and semantic and pragmatic meaning in terms for politeness, money and humour. In the area of Old English studies there are articles on kinship terminology and colour lexemes, and in Middle English a semantic and syntactic study of the overlapping of the verbs dreden and douten. Many of the essays make use of the Historical Thesaurus of English project at the University of Glasgow, and pay tribute to its Director, Professor Christian Kay; e.g., one article demonstrates how the HTE, a project which is at the interface between historical semantics and lexicography, may present a rich resource for information about the lexicalization of concepts within our culture, such as changing social attitudes in the area of will, consent and coercion. Other resources, such as The Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, and the Oxford English Dictionary provide a rich source for information on historical lexicography, semantics and editing. A number of essays concern the Scots language, such as an analysis of evaluative terms in modern Scots speech and writing, the rich potential of rhyme in Scots, and the role of lexicon in th- fronting in Glaswegian.

Author : Stefan Thim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110257038

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Phrasal Verbs by Stefan Thim Pdf

The book traces the evolution of the English verb-particle construction (‘phrasal verb’) from Indo-European and Germanic up to the present. A contrastive survey of the basic semantic and syntactic characteristics of verb-particle constructions in the present-day Germanic languages shows that the English construction is structurally unremarkable and its analysis as a periphrastic word-formation is proposed. From a cross-linguistic and comparative perspective the Old English prefix verbs are identified as preverbs and the shift towards postposition of the particles is connected to the development of more general patterns of word order. The interplay of phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic factors in the loss of the native prefixes in the history of English is investigated. In this context the question is discussed to what extent the older prefixes were replaced by particles and borrowed prefixes, how the characteristic etymological and semantic properties of the Modern English phrasal verbs can be explained and what role they play in the lexicon. The author argues that their common perception as particularly ‘English’, ‘colloquial’ and ‘informal’ has its origin in the eighteenth-century normative tradition.

Author : Jacek Fisiak,Marcin Krygier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110804072

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Advances in English Historical Linguistics by Jacek Fisiak,Marcin Krygier Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.