Preverbal ge- in Old and Middle English

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ID19513249
AuthorsThomas Mcfadden (corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume58
Pages15-48
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueZAS Papers in Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1435-9588 • E-ISSN: 1435-9588
PublisherUniversity Library J. C. Senckenberg (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21248/zaspil.58.2015.427
OpenAlexW2550573293
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited11

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

Corpus linguistics · German · Linguistics · Middle English · Natural language processing · Parsing · Prefix · Computer Science · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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