Grammaticalization and deflexion in progress. The past participle in the Old English passive

Arista, Javier Martı́n; López, Ana Elvira Ojanguren

doi:10.1080/00393274.2018.1463823

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“…Although there are clear-cut instances of these dependencies in Old English, there are others on the grammaticalisation cline. This includes, at least, pre-auxiliaries, expletives and the passive (Denison 1993;Ringe & Taylor 2014;Petré 2014;Martín Arista et al, 2018). For instance, the passive has not been fully grammaticalised in Old English yet for three reasons.…”

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Toward the morpho-syntactic annotation of an Old English corpus with universal dependencies

Arista

2022

Rev. lingüíst. leng. apl.

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The aim of this article is to take the first steps toward the compilation of a treebank of Old English compatible with the framework of Universal Dependencies (UD). Such a treebank will comprise morphological and syntactic annotation of Old English texts adequate for cross-linguistic comparison, diachronic analysis and natural language processing. The article, therefore, engages in four tasks: (i) identifying the Old English exponents of UD lexical categories; (ii) selecting the Old English exponents of UD morphological features; (iii) finding the areas of Old English morphology that require token indexing in the UD format; and (iv) checking on the relevance of the universal set of dependency relations. The data have been extracted from ParCorOEv2, an open access annotated parallel corpus Old English-English. The main conclusions are that the annotation format calls for two additional fields (gloss and morphological relatedness) and that enhanced dependencies are required in order to account for some syntactic phenomena.

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Toward the morpho-syntactic annotation of an Old English corpus with universal dependencies

Arista

2022

Rev. lingüíst. leng. apl.

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“…We hope that the availability of ECEP and its future developments will help to turn scholars’ attention to the field of historical phonology so that it will no longer be the ‘poor relation’ in the family of LModE studies (Beal 2012a: 27), and that it will meet the demands of the growing research community in LModE generally. From the methodological perspective, ECEP also aims to promote the use of databases as research resources in English historical linguistics, in parallel to or alongside large text corpora (see the Eighteenth-Century English Grammars Database and, for earlier English, NerthusV3: Online Lexical Database of Old English (Martín Arista et al 2016)).…”

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ECEP: historical corpora, historical phonology and historical pronouncing dictionaries

Yáñez-Bouza

2020

English Language and Linguistics

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This article presents the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP) in the context of historical phonology and historical corpora. The eighteenth century witnessed the proliferation of works on elocution and orthoepy and yet the field lacks searchable digital sources comparable to those available in other disciplines like historical syntax or historical pragmatics. Because of this and for other reasons such as the difficulty in deciphering idiosyncratic notation systems in the original materials, there has been a certain disregard for the study of eighteenth-century phonological evidence. The ECEP database aims to redress this absence of research material by collecting data from eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries in the form of IPA transcriptions (c. 1,600 different example words totalling c. 17,600 transcriptions) and supplementary metadata, with a view to facilitating systematic analyses of phonological, chronological and geographic patterns, and also normative attitudes. The richness of the contents in ECEP will thus be of interest to phonologists, dialectologists and language variationists from the historical as well as the synchronic perspective, in that eighteenth-century orthoepists laid the ground for what became ‘Received Pronunciation’. Methodologically, the compilation of the ECEP database aims to contribute to the thriving field of corpus linguistics with a new research tool for the study of the history of English.

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“…The framework of verb classes and alternations has been applied to Old English throughout a series of studies that aim at organising the verbal lexicon of this historical stage of English on a principled grammatical basis. This includes, among others, verbs of feeling , verbs of existence , verbs of rejoice (Martín Arista, 2020a), end verbs (Author, 2020), try verbs (Author, 2021) verbs of increasing (Lacalle Palacios, 2021a), verbs of depriving (Lacalle Palacios, 2021b) and aspects of some specific constructions (Martín Arista & Author, 2018;Martín Arista, 2020b. The works cited above share the main theoretical underpinnings of the framework of verb classes and alternations, namely that meaning components restrict grammatical behaviour and that verbal classes must be defined on the basis of common meaning components and morphosyntactic realisations.…”

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Morpho-syntactic Alternations of Old English Verbs of Inaction

López

2022

Int. j. Engl. stud.

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The aim of this article is to describe the morpho-syntactic alternations of Old English verbs of inaction. The method includes the analysis of the syntactic constructions in which verbs of inaction are found and of the alternations themselves, which are described as to argumenthood, morphological case, prepositional government and structural complexity. Two types of alternation are identified on the basis of the affected argument. The dative alternation and the reflexive alternation involve both the first and the second argument, whereas the nominalisation alternation and the genitive alternation are restricted to the second argument. The main conclusions are that the alternations found with inaction verbs consist of two alternants that show different degrees of semantic and syntactic integration, and that the consistent distribution of alternations justifies the classification of the set of classes of inaction proposed in this article.

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Grammaticalization and deflexion in progress. The past participle in the Old English passive

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Toward the morpho-syntactic annotation of an Old English corpus with universal dependencies

Toward the morpho-syntactic annotation of an Old English corpus with universal dependencies

ECEP: historical corpora, historical phonology and historical pronouncing dictionaries

Morpho-syntactic Alternations of Old English Verbs of Inaction

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