Inflectional Variation in the Old English Participle. A Corpus-based Analysis

Q1 Arts and Humanities
Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
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This article deals with the coexistence of verbal and adjectival inflection in the Old English past participle. Its aim is to assess the degree of variation in the inflection of the participle so as to determine whether or not the change starts in the Old English period. The analysis is based on two corpora, the “York Corpus of Old English” and the “Dictionary of Old English Corpus”. With these corpora the following variants of the inflection of the participle are analysed: genre (prose and verse), tense (present and past), morphological class (weak vs. strong) and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and instrumental). The main conclusion of the article is that the quantitative evidence from the corpora indicates that the degree of variation presented by the participle in Old English shows that diachronic change is underway. Overall, the past participle and poetic texts clearly reflect the loss of inflection, while the adjectival inflection of the participle co-occurs with its adjectival function.
古英语分词中的屈折变体。基于语料库的分析
本文论述了古英语过去分词中动词和形容词屈折现象的共存。其目的是评估分词屈折的变化程度,以确定这种变化是否始于古英语时期。本文以《古英语约克语料库》和《古英语语料库词典》两个语料库为基础进行分析。在这些语料库中,分析了分词屈折的以下变体:体裁(散文和韵文)、时态(现在和过去)、形态类(弱与强)和格(主格、宾格、属格、与格和工具格)。文章的主要结论是,来自语料库的定量证据表明,古英语分词的变化程度表明历时变化正在进行。总体而言,过去分词和诗歌文本清楚地反映了屈折的损失,而分词的形容词屈折与其形容词功能同时发生。
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Journal of English Studies
Journal of English Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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