Preverbal ge- in Old and Middle English
- 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.
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| Author: | Thomas McFaddenORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-382324 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/zaspil.html |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Byproducts and side effects : Nebenprodukte und Nebeneffekte |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2015 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2015 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2015/09/17 |
| GND Keyword: | Altenglisch; Mittelenglisch; Präfix; ge <Morphem> |
| Volume: | 58 |
| Page Number: | 34 |
| First Page: | 15 |
| Last Page: | 48 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381130215 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachgeschichte / History of language |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 58 = Byproducts and side effects : Nebenprodukte und Nebeneffekte |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-382302 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
