‘Busked hem redy boun’

Integrating Norse‐derived busken into the class of ‘prepare’ verbs in medieval English

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ID22302589
AuthorsW JULIANE ELTER (0000-0001-9476-333X, University of Wuppertal, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume78
Issue2
Pages178-215
Publication date2025-12-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0108-8416 • E-ISSN: 2212-9715
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/nowele.00099.elt
OpenAlexW4417227851
LanguageEN
References cited26

This paper advances a recent line of inquiry investigating how loan verbs are assigned argument structure in the replica language and whether lexical copying may effect changes in argument structure. It delineates how Middle English busken ‘prepare’ ( búa-sk ) is assigned argument structure in the replica language both by copying from the model language and by assignment from near-synonyms in the replica language as a mixed copy. A comparative qualitative corpus study of the structural integration of busken and the diachronic development of its native near-synonyms in Old and Middle English shows how cognacy of linguistic units and structures, and mutual intelligibility between the languages in contact influence the lexical and, more importantly, structural outcomes of contact

Argument (complex analysis) · Class (philosophy) · Copying · Intelligibility (philosophy) · Language contact · Replica · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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