Particularizing focus markers in Old English: just a case of adverb polysemy?
- The paper investigates the status of the focusing particularizer adverb efne in Old English, which has a polysemous character and can also be used as a manner, time, locative, and as an intensifying adverb. The automated analysis of the lexeme based on the Corpus of Dictionary of Old English isrealized through #LancsBox software, the tools of which (KWIC, Words, GraphColl) assist in reconstructing a hypothetical pattern of the adverb emergence in the language and possible grammaticalization pathways.
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| Author: | Olena AndrushenkoORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1120895 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/112089 |
| ISSN: | 2453-8035OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Lege artis. Language yesterday, today, tomorrow |
| Publisher: | University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava |
| Place of publication: | Trnava |
| Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2024/03/19 |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 2 |
| Last Page: | 14 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.34135/lartis.23.8.2.01 |
| Institutes: | Philologisch-Historische Fakultät |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Anglistik / Amerikanistik / Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch |
| Licence (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung (mit Print on Demand) |
