Updating Old English Dative-Genitives
A Diachronic Construction Grammar Account
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5901132 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan G Vázquez-González (0000-0002-5631-5744, Universidad de Huelva, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 213 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages9060213 |
| OpenAlex | W4399529241 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
This article conducts a corpus linguistics analysis of the dative-genitive subconstruction within the broader context of Old English double object complementation. The ditransitive construction in Old English has traditionally been perceived as a network of alternating subconstructions, including dat-acc, acc-dat, acc-gen, dat-gen, and acc-acc, as the most productive variants. Recent literature has primarily focused on dat-accs and acc-dats because they are the most productive patterns across the history of English, giving also rise to the current ditransitive construction. However, the less productive case frames have received considerably less recent attention. This work, part of an ongoing investigation aimed at creating an OE dat-gen database, builds upon Visser's list, verified and implemented by findings obtained from a search conducted in the Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus. We obtain 88 verb types and 443 tokens, incorporating 19 new verb types and 260 tokens into the database. More significantly, we offer a detailed description of the conceptual domains and verb classes associated with OE dat-gens, which display a semantics characterized by the presence or absence of actual transfer, as well as transitions from literal to metaphorical transfer, with speech verbs playing a significant role
Context (archaeology · Dative case · Genitive case · Grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Verb · Computer Science · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
Motivation in Language
Is syntactic knowledge probabilistic? Experiments with the English dative alternation
Concord
How to Identify Cognates in Syntax? Taking Watkins’ Legacy One Step Further
Studies in Ditransitive Constructions
Oblique Subjects in Germanic
The Oxford Gothic Grammar
Perspectives on Semantic Roles
Non-nominative subjects in Latin and Ancient Greek
Dative subjects in Gothic
The alternating predicate puzzle
From grammaticalization to Diachronic Construction Grammar
The semantic and lexical range of the ditransitive construction in the history of (North) Germanic
Argument structure constructions in competition
The Structure of the Framenet Database
Semantic Frames as Interlingual Representations for Multilingual Lexical Databases
Constructional semantics on the move
Reconstructing Syntax
West Scandinavian ditransitives as a family of constructions
Dative sickness
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |