TY  - CHAP
A1  - McFadden, Thomas
T1  - Preverbal ge- in Old and Middle English
T2  - Byproducts and side effects : Nebenprodukte und Nebeneffekte
N2  - This paper aims to work toward a proper understanding of the role of preverbal ge- in Old English (henceforth OE) and its disappearance in the course of Middle English. This prefix is reminiscent of its cognates in Modern German and Dutch (also written ge-) in its distribution, but even a cursory examination of the details reveals it to be quite distinct, as we will see. The proper characterization of that distribution, and of its diachronic development, has proven to be extremely difficult. I have thus carried out a large-scale corpus study using the York-Toronto-Helsinki parsed corpus of Old English prose (Taylor et al. 2003) and the Penn-Helsinki parsed corpus of Middle English, 2nd ed. (Kroch & Taylor 1999). This paper will report the results of the first phase of the project, involving patterns in the data that could be identified primarily on the basis of automatic searches in the corpora.
KW  - Altenglisch
KW  - Mittelenglisch
KW  - Präfix
KW  - ge <Morphem>
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38232
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-382324
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/zaspil.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 58
SP  - 15
EP  - 48
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
CY  - Berlin
ER  -