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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Autor principal:	Aleksandra Kalaga
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Publicado:	Institute of English Studies 2021
Materias:	morphological conversion word-formation zero derivation old english morphology English language PE1-3729 English literature PR1-9680
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5f0c6bf3ce6f4b24a45987a3b3db46472021-11-09T10:37:14ZThe Semantics of Morphological Conversion in Old English10.7311/0860-5734.30.2.020860-5734https://doaj.org/article/5f0c6bf3ce6f4b24a45987a3b3db46472021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doaj.org/toc/0860-5734The 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.Aleksandra KalagaInstitute of English Studiesarticlemorphological conversionword-formationzero derivationold englishmorphologyEnglish languagePE1-3729English literaturePR1-9680ENAnglica. An International Journal of English Studies, Vol 30, Iss 2, Pp 33-52 (2021)
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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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The Semantics of Morphological Conversion in Old English

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