Prolegomena to the Development of an Inventory of Synsem Features for the Old English Verb
Through the detailed analysis of the meaning definitions of different semantic sets of old English verbs and of their complementation patterns, I will propose a preliminary reconstruction of a basic set of synsem features, i.e. syntactic and semantic parameters which operate throughout the lexicon...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Zaragoza
2000-12-01
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| Series: | Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/11002 |
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| Summary: | Through the detailed analysis of the meaning definitions of different semantic sets of old English verbs and of their complementation patterns, I will propose a preliminary reconstruction of a basic set of synsem features, i.e. syntactic and semantic parameters which operate throughout the lexicon in the various areas of meaning. These features are divided into three basic types: obligatory, optional and contextual. Through the addition of a morphological component, T will propose some possible applications of Faber and Mairal’s (1988) semantic-syntactic model to the analysis of the Anglo-Saxon vocabulary.
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| ISSN: | 1137-6368 2386-4834 |