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Ogura, Michiko. "For-Verbs in Old English." Languages 9, no. 4 (2024): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages9040124.

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All of the for-verbs in the Dictionary of Old English can have semantic features of ‘equal or emphatic’, ‘expanded or antonymous’, ‘rare’, ‘only in gloss’ and ‘poetic’, including overlapping types. Most for-verbs have a sense of emphasis in contrast to their non-prefixed counterparts; some mean almost the same as the non-prefixed ones, some seem to be always used with the for-prefix, and some cannot be precisely identified because of their very rare occurrences. In this paper, I classify Old English for-verbs with examples and try to show why they were chosen in contrast to their non-prefixed

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Ogura, Michiko. "The interchangeability of Old English verbal prefixes." Anglo-Saxon England 24 (December 1995): 67–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026367510000466x.

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Old English prefixed verbs are numerous. At times prefixes are used to convey different shades of meaning, but often the meanings seem, in context, not to convey definite distinctions in sense. Prefixes and prefixed verbs must have been important in Old English, judging from their numbers and morphological distinctions, but most prefixes had adverbial and/or prepositional counter-parts, and verbs with adverbs or prepositional phrases (whether preposed or postposed to verbs) could be used alongside prefixed verbs.

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LOUREIRO-PORTO, LUCÍA. "Verbo-nominal constructions of necessity with þearf n. and need n.: competition and grammaticalization from OE to eModE." English Language and Linguistics 14, no. 3 (2010): 373–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674310000122.

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The evolution of verbs expressing necessity in the history of English, such as *þurfan and need, has been studied in detail, especially their semantic competition and their grammaticalization (see Molencki 2002, 2005; Taeymans 2006; Loureiro-Porto 2009). However, analogous verbo-nominal expressions involving the morphologically related nouns þearf and need and the verbs be and have have received little attention, despite their relevance as semantic competitors of the verbs and their subsequent fossilization in high-frequency expressions such as if need be and had need. The current article fill

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CICHOSZ, ANNA. "Old English verbs of saying and verb-initial order." English Language and Linguistics 21, no. 3 (2016): 533–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674316000174.

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OE verb-initial main clauses are associated with a number of stylistic functions and they are said to co-occur with specific verb types, including verbs of saying (Mitchell 1985; Petrova 2006; Ohkado 2005). It has also been observed that the general frequency of the V-1 pattern in OE is text-specific and that the structure is exceptionally well represented in Bede (Calle-Martín & Miranda-García 2010; Ohkado 2000; Mitchell 1985). Latin influence has been suggested as a possible explanation for the high frequency of V-1 in this text, but this hypothesis has never been tested (Ohkado 2000). T

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Domínguez Barragán, Sara. "Semantics and Syntax of Old English Motion Verbs." Journal of English Studies 22 (November 8, 2024): 135–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.5808.

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This is a study in the syntax and semantics of Old English verbs of motion, including verbs of neutral motion, verbs of manner of motion and verbs of path of motion. Its aim is to identify the morphosyntactic alternations in which these verbs participate. The theoretical basis of the research draws on Goddard’s semantics of motion, Levin’s model of verb classes and alternations and Talmy’s typological distinction between satellite-framed languages and verb-framed languages. The grammatical patterns of the verbs under analysis are discussed, as described in The Dictionary of Old English (Healey

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Goh, Gwang-Yoon. "Case Government of Old English Verbs." Journal of English Linguistics 27, no. 2 (1999): 143–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00754249922004525.

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Concu, Valentina. "Explicit performatives in Old Saxon and Old High German." International Review of Pragmatics 17, no. 1 (2025): 58–90. https://doi.org/10.1163/18773109-01701003.

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Abstract This study explores the distribution and frequency of explicit performatives within the Old Saxon and Old High German corpora. Focusing on instances with verbs with meanings such as ‘request,’ ‘command,’ ‘advise,’ and ‘entreat,’ the analysis reveals a partial similarity between the two corpora, particularly in their portrayal of asymmetrical social relationships in religious texts. The findings indicate that higher-ranked addressers, such as God and Jesus, predominantly use verbs of ‘commanding’ and ‘instructing,’ while lower-ranked addressers, mainly believers, employ verbs for ‘requ

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Mardonova, Sitora Mardonovna. "SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF VERBS INCLUDED IN 4 CATEGORIES IN OLD ENGLISH." International journal of word art 6, no. 1 (2023): 4. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7679967.

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This article analyzes the semantic structure of some motion verbs in the English language, on the basis of which specific semantic events of the verbs of movement are determined. The main attention is paid to certain structures and boundaries of verbs, that is, the semantic field of verbs belonging to this group, and the semantic classification of lexemes of this group of verbs to identify their common, unifying, differentiating semantics. The purpose of this article is to identify lexical and semantic variability, semantic enrichment and the reasons for the historical development of some dire

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Lavidas, Nikolaos, and Gaberell Drachman. "On the Verbal Complements of Aspectual Verbs." Journal of Greek Linguistics 12, no. 2 (2012): 305–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15699846-00000004.

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This article presents independent morpho-syntactic evidence from Ancient Greek and Old English supporting the existence of two alternative Aspect functional heads (following Fukuda 2007 on Modern Japanese and Modern English). The focus of the study is on the similarities between Ancient Greek and Old (and Modern) English aspectual verbs and on the consequences of these similarities for the analysis of aspectuals. Ancient Greek and Old English aspectual verbs fall into two groups: (a) aspectual verbs that could select both infinitive/to-infinitive and participial/ bare infinitive complements (a

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Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira. "Interclausal relations with Old English verbs of inaction." Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 34, no. 2 (2021): 555–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/resla.19040.oja.

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Abstract The aim of this article is to analyse the syntactic and semantic interclausal relations that hold with Old English verbs of inaction. These verbs are studied from the perspective of juncture-nexus relations and the semantic relations Phase, Psych-action and Causative. The results are compared on the grounds of the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy. The comparison of semantic content and syntactic expression evidences discrepancies between too weak juncture-nexus types, such as clausal subordination, and very close semantic relations, like Phase. Two main conclusions are drawn. Firstly,

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García García, Luisa, and Esaúl Ruiz Narbona. "Lability in Old English Verbs: Chronological and Textual Distribution." Anglia 139, no. 2 (2021): 283–326. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2021-0022.

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Abstract Present-Day English has an unusually high number of labile verbs, such as melt or burn, both cross-linguistically and with respect to genetically related languages. Comparison among early Germanic languages has allowed researchers to detect an incipient favouring of labile coding already in Old English, where it is more frequent than in any other language of this group (Hermodsson 1952) and replaces causative coding in a considerable proportion of former causative verb pairs (van Gelderen 2011; García García 2020). This article attempts to map the chronological and textual distributio

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Ogura, Michiko. "Some Peculiar Forms of Old English Verbs." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 51, no. 2 (2016): 31–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2016-0008.

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Abstract In late Old English it became common to find strange verb forms of which had less frequently appeared in earlier texts. It is clear that Old English paradigms started to modify their shapes, though their structure had never been completely established in the first place due to limited data. This article discusses some examples of Old English verbs which show a morphological merger in addition to phonetic, syntactic, or semantic resemblance, e.g., between wendan and gewendan, þyncan and þencan, læran and leornian, (ge)witan and (ge)wītan, blissian and bletsian, and biddan, (be)beodan,

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Tío Sáenz, Marta. "The regularization of Old English weak verbs." Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas 10, no. 1 (2015): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2015.3583.

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Lowrey, Brian. "Causative verbs in West Saxon Old English." Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes 78, no. 1 (2010): 57–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/bamed.2010.1012.

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Anderson, John. "A core morphology for Old English verbs." English Language and Linguistics 2, no. 2 (1998): 199–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s136067430000085x.

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A characterization of the morphology of ‘regular’ Old English verbs is offered on the basis of a ‘word-and-paradigm’ approach to morphological structure. Thus rules of expression are formulated providing for the phonological realization(s) of (combinations of) morphosyntactic categories of tense, mood, person, number etc. However, it is argued that the organization of categories (in terms of compatibility and presupposition) differs with respect to the syntax–morphology interface and the morphology–phonology interface (the rules of expression). There is therefore proposed a set of rules of cat

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Ginevra, Riccardo, Erica Biagetti, Luca Brigada Villa, and Martina Giarda. "A Constructionist and Corpus-Based Approach to Formulas in Old English Poetry." Languages 9, no. 7 (2024): 237. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages9070237.

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This paper explores a constructionist and corpus-based approach to Old English formulaic language through an analysis of the “maþelode system” of speech introductions. The analysis is performed on a section of the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry, comprising the poems Beowulf, Battle of Brunanburh, and Exodus. The results show that most instances of the maþelode system belong to a well-attested construction continuum, structured by the widespread Old English (and ultimately Germanic) poetic devices of variation and kenning. This continuum ranges from more fixed repetitions tha

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Castillo, Concha. "The derivation of verbs in Old English and Middle English." Complutense Journal of English Studies 30 (December 16, 2022): 23–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/cjes.80187.

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Within the framework of minimalist syntax, it is argued that the core-syntax derivation of verbs in OE and ME (up to approx. 1450) is regulated by two licensing T(ense) heads (that is, two T Probes) plus a licensing v head (or v Probe), all of which are in charge of interpreting τ–features. v acts as Probe of v-0 (its Goal) in order to interpret [+/–past] τ–features for strong verbs. This capacity of v is argued to rely on the ablaut distinction between Pret. 1 and Pret. 2, since ablaut is determined by the specific [person] of the subject and must therefore be syntactically derived. This situ

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GETTY, MICHAEL. "Differences in the metrical behavior of Old English finite verbs: evidence for grammaticalization." English Language and Linguistics 4, no. 1 (2000): 37–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674300000137.

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This paper deals with the metrical behavior of a class of verbs in Old English whose descendants became the syntactically distinct auxiliaries of the modern period (have, be, may, will, shall, and associated forms). Contrasting two poems from the Old English period (Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon), I show that while the verbs in question show consistently stressed metrical placement in Beowulf, in Maldon they show a pronounced tendency to be placed in unstressed metrical positions, while verbs outside the eventual class of auxiliaries differ indiscriminately. In this way, the poetry suggests

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Pintzuk, Susan, and Eric Haeberli. "Structural variation in Old English root clauses." Language Variation and Change 20, no. 3 (2008): 367–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095439450800015x.

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AbstractA standard observation concerning basic constituent order in Old English (OE) is that the position of finite verbs varies by clause type. In root clauses, the finite verb tends to occur toward the beginning of the clause, and we frequently find Verb Second (V2) order. In contrast, in subordinate clauses, finite verbs generally occur toward the end of the clause, and these clauses are frequently verb-final. We challenge the traditional assumption that verb-final orders and, hence, the occurrence of the finite verb in a head-final structural position are rare in OE root clauses. We prese

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Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira. "Morpho-syntactic Alternations of Old English Verbs of Inaction." International Journal of English Studies 22, no. 2 (2022): 91–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes.500791.

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The aim of this article is to describe the morpho-syntactic alternations of Old English verbs of inaction. The method includes the analysis of the syntactic constructions in which verbs of inaction are found and of the alternations themselves, which are described as to argumenthood, morphological case, prepositional government and structural complexity. Two types of alternation are identified on the basis of the affected argument. The dative alternation and the reflexive alternation involve both the first and the second argument, whereas the nominalisation alternation and the genitive alternat

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Fidalgo Allo, Luisa. "Applying RRG to the Lexical Paradigms of Old English Strong Verbs." Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada 22, no. 1 (2024): 110–24. https://doi.org/10.58859/rael.v23i1.582.

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Este artículo evalúa la aplicabilidad de la Gramática del Papel y la Referencia (GPR) en los paradigmas léxicos de los verbos fuertes del inglés antiguo. Se analizan 328 paradigmas léxicos y 1,509 verbos extraídos de la base de datos Nerthus. Tras una exhaustiva revisión de los paradigmas, se implementa la taxonomía de Aktionsart de la GPR en cada verbo. Las conclusiones abordan aspectos teóricos y descriptivos, ofreciendo una revisión crítica de la teoría de la GPR y proponiendo actualizaciones, como la inclusión de un nuevo tipo de Aktionsart para procesos no delimitados en el tiempo. Además

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Martín Arista, Francisco Javier, and Laura Caballero González. "Arguments or macroroles? : Two functional approaches to Old English quirky case." Journal of English Studies 3 (May 29, 2002): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.80.

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After comparing two functional approaches to the question of Old English deviant accusatives, genitives and datives, this paper follows Martín Arista (2001a, b) with respect to Old English prototypical verbal constructions: the prototypical transitive construction is defined as the active accomplishment version of verbs like writan 'write', the activity implementation of creation and consumption verbs representing the less-prototypical transitive construction; the active accomplishment use of verbs such as faran 'go' characterize the prototypical intransitive construction, whereas the activity

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Kulczycka, Agata. "Old English Causative Alternation: The Transitivity of „openian” and „drỳgean”". Anglica Wratislaviensia 55 (18 жовтня 2017): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.55.9.

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The aim of this paper is to take a position in an ongoing debate over the direction of the derivation in the causative alternation. Since the solutions offered by synchronic linguistics carry with them certain problems, the research presented here accounts for the issue from the diachronic perspective, thus combining methods of corpus and theoretical linguistics. The results obtained from the quantitative analysis of the frequency of occurence of two Old English ‘change of state’ verbs in transitive and intransitive structures seem to support the detransitivization claim for at least one of th

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Gema Maíz Villalta. "Assessing the Productivity of Old English –læcan." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 43 (March 31, 2012): 55–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20119283.

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the productivity of the Old English weak verbs suffixed with -læcan. The main sources for this research are the lexical database of Old English Nerthus and The Dictionary of Old English Corpus. The assessment of productivity is based on the distinction between type-frequency (dictionary-based) and token-frequency (corpus-based). This work contributes to a methodology for assessing the productivity of a morphological process in a historical language as well as for dealing with very low indexes of productivity. The conclusion is reached that the type-frequency

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Novo Urraca, Carmen. "Old English deadjectival paradigms." NOWELE / North-Western European Language Evolution 68, no. 1 (2015): 61–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/nowele.68.1.02urr.

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This article focuses on Old English derivational paradigms with adjectival bases and assesses their productivity and degree of recursivity. On the theoretical side, the article puts forward the concept of paradigmatic productivity in order to gauge the relative importance of lexical categories as bases of word-formation. On the descriptive side, the analysis identifies the basic adjectives of Old English, gathers their derivatives, assigns a base of derivation to each deadjectival lemma and lists the instances of recursive word-formation. The main conclusions of the research are that the deriv

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Ogura, Michiko. "Three features of old English verbs of motion∗." English Studies 78, no. 4 (1997): 316–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138389708599080.

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Gelderen, Elly van. "Main and embedded clausal asymmetry in the history of English." Linguistic Variation 19, no. 1 (2019): 118–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lv.15019.gel.

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Abstract In this paper, I sketch the CP layer in main and embedded clauses in the history of English. The Modern English main clause is not as easily expandable as the Old English one, but the reverse is true in the subordinate clause, where Modern English has a more flexible embedded CP than Old English. I focus on the developments of the embedded CP. It has been claimed that Old English lacks an embedded split CP and therefore lacks embedded V2 and a host of other embedded root phenomena. I show this to be true for complements to both assertive and non-assertive verbs. In contrast, the Moder

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Holovatska, Nataliia. "LEXICAL-SEMANTIC SUBSYSTEM OF SENSORY VERBS IN THE MODERN ENGLISH VERB SYSTEM." Germanic Philology Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, no. 831-832 (2021): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/gph2021.831-832.35-48.

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The article focuses on the study of the lexical-semantic subsystem of sensory verbs in the Modern English verb system. The objectives of the study are to analyse sensory verbs’ semantic features, establish macro- and micro integral connections between them, and to determine their groups and synonymic sets by differential trait and denotative sema. Definitional, componential, comparative, proportional and quantitative analysis, English explanatory dictionaries and thesauri were used in the study. Sensory verbs of five lexical-semantic fields have approximately the same proportion of lexemes tha

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White, David L. "Possible Solutions for Long-Standing Problems Involving Old English Verbs." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 28/2 (September 20, 2019): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.28.2.02.

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Solutions based on “equivalence interference” are proposed for various problems involving OE verbs. WG verbs with 1SG /-ͻͻmi/ were modeled on Celtic verbs with /-aami/. Pre-OE eode is from /eiͻͻde/, analogical to 1SG /eiͻͻmi/ from /eimi/. OE dyd- is from reinterpretation of peasant /dïd-/, from low-stressed /ded-/ used as a non-emphatic periphrastic, as noble /düd-/. WG /bii-/ ‘be’ was modeled on Celtic /bii-/ ‘(habitual-future) be’. Habitual-future /bi-/ (lost on the continent) re-developed in OE on the model of habitual-future /bi-/ in Brittonic. The English rule that non-indicative forms of

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Lowrey, Brian. "Participial Perception Verb Complements in Old English." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 49, no. 3 (2014): 43–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2015-0002.

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Abstract In this paper, I shall examine the complements of perception verbs in Old English involving a noun phrase and a present participle. What kind of perception is described by these structures? Do they evoke the perception of an event, or that of an entity? It will be shown here that there are good reasons to believe that an NP + present participle sequence could function as the equivalent of the traditional “AcI” construction when used with perception verbs. I shall also attempt to determine to what extent the syntax of this construction matches the semantics: is the internal argument of

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Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira. "Are There Serial Verb Constructions in Old English? A New Perspective on the Changes in Verbal Complementation." Philologica Canariensia, no. 30 (2024) (June 22, 2024): 393–423. http://dx.doi.org/10.20420/phil.can.2024.683.

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This article discusses the existence of serial verb constructions in Old English and explores the complementation of aspectual and control verbs as well as other related constructions. The discussion of the Old English data finds remarkable differences with respect to the syntactic configurations of Present-Day English that are described as serial by Roberts (2010). Although the range of serial constructions is more restrictive in Old English, at least with aspectual verbs, the analysis of verbal complementation from the perspective of serialisation allows us to bring other convergent construc

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Tomaszewska, Magdalena. "On the Auxiliary Status of Dare in Old English." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 49, no. 3 (2014): 63–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2015-0003.

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Abstract OE *durran ‘dare’ belongs to a group of the so-called preterite-present verbs which developed weak past tense forms replacing the originally strong forms throughout the paradigm. The present study hypothesizes that the potential sources of this development are related to the decay of the subjunctive mood in Old English. Further, this corpus-based study analyses the status of DARE in Old English, with the findings showing that the verb displayed both lexical and auxiliary verb characteristics. These results are juxtaposed and compared with the verb's developments in Middle English. The

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Trips, Carola, and Achim Stein. "Contact-Induced Changes in the Argument Structure of Middle English Verbs on the Model of Old French." Journal of Language Contact 12, no. 1 (2019): 232–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01201008.

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This paper investigates contact-induced changes in the argument structure of Middle English verbs on the model of Old French. 1 We study two issues: i) to what extent did the English system retain and integrate the argument structure of verbs copied from French? ii) did the argument structure of these copied verbs influence the argument structure of native verbs? Our study is based on empirical evidence from Middle English corpora as well as a full text analysis of the Ayenbite of Inwyt and focusses on a number of verbs governing a dative in French. In the first part of the paper we define the

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Verroens, Filip, B. De Clerck, and D. Willems. "I blackberried him twice and skyped him a happy Father’s day." French Syntax in Contrast 33, no. 2 (2010): 285–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.33.2.10ver.

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In this article we zoom in on the Verbs of Instrument of Communication (B. Levin 1993) in English and French and address a number of interesting issues. We examine the structural possibilities of the old and new Verbs of Instrument of Communication in comparison with one another and across the two languages. First, despite the creative uses of these verbs, some structural differences between the languages still prevail in the old and new Verbs of Instrument of Communication. For instance, while English allows non-pronominal realisation of object and recipient in the so called double-object con

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Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira. "Semantic and Syntactic Range of Old English Nominalisations with Aspectual Verbs." Journal of English Studies 21 (December 20, 2023): 77–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.5699.

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This article analyses the complementation of Old English verbs of aspect by means of nominalisations. Three types of derived nominals are distinguised: deverbal nominals that entail a verbal predication but do not take complements of their own; direct nominalisations (with Actor or Undergoer genitive); and oblique nominalisations. The main conclusion of the article is that, to the sources of the English gerund identified by Lass (1992), others should be added, including suffixes (such as -ung, -ness and -t) and affixless derivation from strong and weak verbs. It is also a conclusion of this st

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Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira. "The Semantics and Syntax of Old English End Verbs." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 42, no. 1 (2020): 163–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.09.

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Bondar, Vladimir. "Habban + participle II with motion verbs in Old English." Вопросы языкознания, no. 5 (October 2017): 75–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s0373658x0001031-3.

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Esanov, Azizbek. "On the translation problems of phrasal verbs in the work "The Old Man and The Sea" by E.Hemingway." World Social Science 2, no. 1 (2019): 61–62. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10603016.

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This article discusses the peculiar sides of the Uzbek translation of phrasal verbs in the work “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway, done by Ibrahim Gafurov. The translation issues of phrasal verbs in English are analysed in comparison with Uzbek variations.

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Vázquez-González, Juan G., and Jóhanna Barðdal. "Reconstructing the ditransitive construction for Proto-Germanic: Gothic, Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic." Folia Linguistica 40, no. 2 (2019): 555–620. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/flih-2019-0021.

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Abstract The semantic range of ditransitive verbs in Modern English has been at the center of linguistic attention ever since the pioneering work of Pinker (1989. Learnability and cognition: The acquisition of argument structure. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press). At the same time, historical research on how the semantics of the ditransitive construction has changed over time has seriously lagged behind. In order to address this issue for the Germanic languages, the Indo-European subbranch to which Modern English belongs, we systematically investigate the narrowly defined semantic verb classes occur

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Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira. "Old English verbs of prohibition. Grammatical behaviour and class membership." SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature. 24, no. 1 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.17811/selim.24.2019.1-28.

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The aim of this article is to determine if the Old English verbs bewerian, forbēodan, foresacan, forwiernan, stīeran and tōcweþān constitute a unified class of prohibition. The theoretical model is provided by the framework of verb classes and alternations, as well as by Role and Reference Grammar. Class membership requires not only similar meaning components but also shared grammatical behaviour. While bewerian, forbēodan and forwyrnan are found in three syntactic configurations, and in the Nominalisation and Undergoer alternations, foresacan, stīeran and tōcweþān occur in one syntactic confi

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van Gelderen, Elly. "Valency changes in the history of English." Journal of Historical Linguistics 1, no. 1 (2011): 106–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.1.1.05van.

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This article examines changes in the valency marking in the history of English. I start with a discussion of the typological literature on measuring basic valency and point out the problems with such an approach. A sample of 18 Old English verbs provides no basic valency pattern for Old English; this makes Old English different from the other Germanic languages. I then review the evidence, presented in, for instance, Visser (1963), that there is an increase in transitivity in the history of English and argue that this increase is partly due to verbs ceasing to mark Theme-preserving alternation

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Tairova, Shahnoza Bahromovna, and Aziza Sayfullo Qizi Butunbayeva. "IMPORTANCE OF EVOLUTION OF PHRASAL VERBS AND THEIR HISTORY." Innovative Development in Educational Activities 2, no. 7 (2023): 238–40. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7831002.

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<em>The aim of this article is to supplement existing research on history of English phrasal verbs and its evolution by exploring fist versions till the present day. The periodization of languages into ‘old’, ‘middle’ and ‘new’ periods, or even more subtle distinctions, is a tricky issue. However, phrasal verbs present status and their position in verbal lexicon of contemporary English demand to study their periods of establishing. This work highlights and give instruction of how used phrasal verbs in past time. </em>

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E. Díaz Vera, Javier. "Derivation in a word-based morphology: on the origin of Old English verbs of perception, cognition and emotion." Linguistica 51, no. 1 (2011): 285–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.51.1.285-290.

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In this paper I describe the process of grammaticalization of Old English causative verbs through the analysis of some of the different strategies for the expression of causation in three different lexical domains: PHYSICAL PERCEPTION, COGNITION and EMOTION. The etymological analysis of these verbs indicates that, in the case of the three lexical domains under scrutiny, causation was lexicalized and conceptualized as forced movement or change of an external (as in the case of verbs of FEELING; e.g. OE hieran 'to hear') or internal (i.e. verbs of COGNITION and some EMOTION verbs; e.g. OE gemyna

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Мамедова, Марьям Назим гызы. "FOOD PREPARATION AND CONSUMPTION IN OLD ENGLISH." Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Филология, no. 2(73) (June 14, 2022): 222–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.26456/vtfilol/2022.2.222.

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В статье рассматривается лексико-семантическая группа глаголов - обозначений процесса приготовления и потребления пищи, засвидетельствованных в древнеанглийских памятниках. На основе обзора историко-культурного контекста анализируются этимология и историческая семантика слов, обозначающих в английском языке процесс приготовления и потребления пищи, а также проблемы их интерпретации. This paper examines lexical-semantic group of verbs - designations of food preparation and consumption process found in ancient English texts. Based on a review of the historical and cultural contexts, the etymolog

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HOLOVATSKA, Nataliia. "THE DYNAMICS OF ENGLISH SENSORY VERBS MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS." Germanic Philology Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, no. 848 (May 2024): 59–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/gph2024.848.59-71.

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The study is focused on the analysis of the dynamic development of the morphological functions of the main sensory verbs, which make up the core of five lexical-semantic fields of visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory and tactile sensory perception, in the diachronic view and covers all periods of the English language development: Old English, Middle English, Early New English and New English. The objective is a detailed and in-depth study of the grammatical and phonetic characteristics of the main nuclear English sensory verbs at each stage of their development and highlighting the changes t

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Alonso, Roberto Torre, and Darío Metola Rodríguez. "CLOSING SUFFIXES IN OLD ENGLISH: A STUDY BASED ON RECURSIVE AFFIXATION." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 48, no. 2-3 (2013): 27–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/stap-2013-0006.

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ABSTRACT This paper takes issue with the lexicon of Old English and, more specifically, with the existence of closing suffixes in word-formation. Closing suffixes are defined as base suffixes that prevent further suffixation by word-forming suffixes (Aronoff & Furhop 2002: 455). This is tantamount to saying that this is a study in recursivity, or the formation of derivatives from derived bases, as in anti-establish-ment, which requires the attachment of the prefix anti- to the derived input establishment. The present analysis comprises all major lexical categories, that is, nouns, adjectiv

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González Orta, Marta María. "The syntax and semantics interface of present-day and Old English speech verbs : say and tell versus secgan and tellan." Journal of English Studies 3 (May 29, 2002): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.70.

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the syntax-semantics interface of the Old English speech verbs secgan and tellan, and the Present-day English speech verbs say and tell, respectively, in order to show the differences in each language when linking their syntactic and semantic representations. In this analysis the concept of lexical template has been applied as a lexical representation which includes syntactic and semantic information within the same format and allows us to capture linguistic regularities. Moreover, taking into account the syntactic alternations of these verbs a comparison be

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Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira. "Cosubordination with Old English aspectual verbs. Sharing arguments and operators." Onomázein Revista de lingüística filología y traducción, no. 64 (2024): 210–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.64.11.

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This article offers a perspective from Old English on the diachronic development of aspectual verbs. Within the theoretical framework of Role and Reference Grammar, this study shows a situation of competition between finite and non-finite complementation that predicts a change on the diachronic axis. The fact that not only the first argument but also verbal operators are shared by the matrix and the linked predication motivates the change from the looser syntax of finite complementation to the tighter syntax of non-finite complementation.

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Ogura, Michiko. "Old English Verbs of Tasting with Accusative/Genitive/Of-Phrase." Neophilologus 92, no. 3 (2008): 517–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9098-0.

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Leone, Ljubica. "Phrasal verbs and analogical generalization in Late Modern Spoken English." ICAME Journal 40, no. 1 (2016): 39–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/icame-2016-0004.

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Abstract This present study focuses on the description of the development of phrasal verbs (PVs) in Late Modern Spoken English and, specifically, aims at analysing texts taken from the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, a valuable source of spoken language from past time periods. From a diachronic perspective, the emergence of new PVs can be considered strictly linked to the process of direct formation and analogical generalization resulting in PVs as they are known in Present Day English (PDE). This study is a corpus-based investigation conducted on the Late Modern English-Old Bailey Corpus (LMod

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