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Corpus-Based Linguistics of Old English

A special issue of Languages (ISSN 2226-471X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 8836

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Prof. Dr. Javier Martín Martín-Arista

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Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Universidad de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Interests: old english; theoretical linguistics; functional grammar; corpus linguistics; natural language processing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleague,

Considering your expertise in the field of Old English, I would like to invite you to submit an article to the special issue of the Languages journal entitled Corpus-Based Linguistics of Old English. Languages (ISSN: 2226-471X) is a peer-reviewed international, multidisciplinary and open-access journal published by MDPI. Languages is indexed within Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), ERIH Plus, and other databases. Its 2022 impact factor is 0.9 and it has been ranked within the first quartile of SJCR (Q1).

Contributions are welcome that carry out linguistic analysis of Old English at the phonological, lexical, morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels. Theoretically and typologically-oriented studies are also within the scope of the volume, but theoretical, comparative and descriptive approaches must be based on corpus analysis of Old English. The preferred corpora are the Dictionary of Old English Corpus and the York corpora of Old English (prose and poetry), or subsets of these. Diachronic analysis involving Old English should preferably be based on the Helsinki Corpus or the Penn Corpus of Historical English. Computational or NLP approaches are also welcome if their datasets include Old English.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400-600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editor ([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editor for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the special issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

Languages is an online journal. Each accepted paper will be published continuously as it is ready and all accepted papers will be listed together on the Special Issue website. If ten or more papers are collected, the Special Issue will be published as a book.

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Abstract submission deadline: 30 November 2023

Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 December 2023

Full manuscript deadline: 30 April 2024

Special issue publication: December 2024

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Prof. Dr. Javier Martín Martín-Arista
Guest Editor

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  • old English
  • corpus linguistics
  • linguistic analysis

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Some Notes on Left-Dislocation in the Homilies of Wulfstan
by Artur Bartnik
Languages 2024, 9(9), 301; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9090301 - 13 Sep 2024
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In this paper, I show how pragmatics and syntax are interconnected in Old English by examining the left-dislocation system in Wulfstan’s homilies. Syntactically, this article argues that left-dislocation fits in nicely with the system found in other Old English texts, despite certain superficial [...] Read more.
In this paper, I show how pragmatics and syntax are interconnected in Old English by examining the left-dislocation system in Wulfstan’s homilies. Syntactically, this article argues that left-dislocation fits in nicely with the system found in other Old English texts, despite certain superficial structural differences. The unexpected high number of demonstrative resumptives is accounted for by the accumulation of formulaic structures in one homily. Pragmatically, LFD performs a number of discourse functions. The main function is a generalizing one, as LFD introduces new topics in the discourse. This case study also shows that other functions traditionally linked with LFD can be found in Wulfstan’s texts. For instance, demonstrative resumptives show some degree of topic shifting and can be accompanied by the contrastive function. By contrast, personal pronoun resumptives can mark topic continuity with specific referents. Since the corpus data are necessarily limited because only one file from the YCOE is examined, some claims are not verifiable. A good example is the assumption found in the literature that personal pronoun resumptives in LFD tend to land low in the clause. Full article
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The Inflection of Latin Proper Names in the Old English Translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica
by Esaúl Ruiz Narbona
Languages 2024, 9(7), 245; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9070245 - 11 Jul 2024
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This paper discusses the inflections of Latin proper names in the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica. Whereas most common Latin loans are integrated into the Old English system as far as inflections are concerned, proper names, like scientific loans, can [...] Read more.
This paper discusses the inflections of Latin proper names in the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica. Whereas most common Latin loans are integrated into the Old English system as far as inflections are concerned, proper names, like scientific loans, can retain Latin inflections in some contexts. The analysis of the more than 700 tokens in this text reveals that the prototypical paradigm of Latin proper names results from a mixture of Latin and Old English patterns. The choice of inflections seems to be chiefly conditioned by grammatical case. While the nominative and accusative are modeled after Latin with very few exceptions, the dative and genitive are influenced by Old English paradigms as well. Both Latin and Old English inflections are evenly distributed in the dative. However, marking on names seems to be secondary and determined primarily by additional morphosyntactic means such as determiners or prepositions. As for the genitive, the predominant inflection, thematic vowel plus -s, results from the fusion of the inflections in both languages grounded in phonetic or spelling similarities. Full article
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A Constructionist and Corpus-Based Approach to Formulas in Old English Poetry
by Riccardo Ginevra, Erica Biagetti, Luca Brigada Villa and Martina Giarda
Languages 2024, 9(7), 237; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9070237 - 28 Jun 2024
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This paper explores a constructionist and corpus-based approach to Old English formulaic language through an analysis of the “maþelode system” of speech introductions. The analysis is performed on a section of the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry, comprising the [...] Read more.
This paper explores a constructionist and corpus-based approach to Old English formulaic language through an analysis of the “maþelode system” of speech introductions. The analysis is performed on a section of the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry, comprising the poems Beowulf, Battle of Brunanburh, and Exodus. The results show that most instances of the maþelode system belong to a well-attested construction continuum, structured by the widespread Old English (and ultimately Germanic) poetic devices of variation and kenning. This continuum ranges from more fixed repetitions that exclusively involve the verb maþelian to more schematic patterns that are also attested by other speech verbs, by verbs of giving, as well as by a number of further verbs of various semantic types. The particularly high frequency of this pattern with speech verbs and verbs of giving matches the prominent role, highlighted by previous studies, of both word-exchange and gift-exchange within Old English heroic ideology, and suggests that these formulaic patterns served the purpose to characterize the protagonists of speech or giving events as heroic and/or lordly figures. Full article
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Updating Old English Dative–Genitives: A Diachronic Construction Grammar Account
by Juan G. Vázquez-González
Languages 2024, 9(6), 213; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060213 - 11 Jun 2024
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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 [...] Read more.
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. Full article
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For-Verbs in Old English
by Michiko Ogura
Languages 2024, 9(4), 124; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9040124 - 1 Apr 2024
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All of the for-verbs in the Dictionary of Old English can have semantic features of ‘equal or emphatic’, ‘expanded or antonymous’, ‘rare’, ‘only in gloss’ and ‘poetic’, including overlapping types. Most for-verbs have a sense of emphasis in contrast to their [...] Read more.
All of the for-verbs in the Dictionary of Old English can have semantic features of ‘equal or emphatic’, ‘expanded or antonymous’, ‘rare’, ‘only in gloss’ and ‘poetic’, including overlapping types. Most for-verbs have a sense of emphasis in contrast to their non-prefixed counterparts; some mean almost the same as the non-prefixed ones, some seem to be always used with the for-prefix, and some cannot be precisely identified because of their very rare occurrences. In this paper, I classify Old English for-verbs with examples and try to show why they were chosen in contrast to their non-prefixed counterparts. Full article
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Competition in the Complementation of Old English Control Verbs with Oblique Marking: A Corpus Analysis
by Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
Languages 2024, 9(3), 86; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9030086 - 29 Feb 2024
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The aim of this article is to explain the syntactic competition found in the complementation of Old English Prevent verbs. The competition on argumenthood involves linked verbal predications and linked nominal predications. Evidence is gathered for continuity both between finite and non-finite linked [...] Read more.
The aim of this article is to explain the syntactic competition found in the complementation of Old English Prevent verbs. The competition on argumenthood involves linked verbal predications and linked nominal predications. Evidence is gathered for continuity both between finite and non-finite linked verbal predications as well as between non-finite and nominalised linked predications. This evidence points to a diachronic development: finite clause > non-finite clause > nominalisation. The main conclusion of the article is that the Interclausal Relation Hierarchy predicts the replacement of the finite clause complementation with non-finite clause complementation in such a way that the syntactically tighter noun phrase involving a deverbal nominalisation constitutes the next step of syntactic development. Full article
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Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-Derivatives
by Javier Martín Arista
Languages 2024, 9(3), 76; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9030076 - 27 Feb 2024
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This article deals with one of the aspects involved in the compilation of a treebank of Old English within the framework of Universal Dependencies. More specifically, this study addresses the question of how to account for the remarkable degree of Old English morphological [...] Read more.
This article deals with one of the aspects involved in the compilation of a treebank of Old English within the framework of Universal Dependencies. More specifically, this study addresses the question of how to account for the remarkable degree of Old English morphological relatedness in a type of treebank designed to stress syntactic similarities across languages. The solution proposed and assessed in this study is the addition of an extra field of annotation for morphological relatedness. The data of this analysis comprise 1106 derivatives attaching the prefix un-. Out of these, there are around 80 morphologically complex nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs whose derivation cannot be described gradually, 33 of which are unique formations or hapax legomena according to the attestations provided by the Dictionary of Old English Corpus. The main conclusion is that the specification of short-distance and long-distance morphological relatedness provides the Old English treebank with a paradigmatic dimension that can be particularly relevant for languages with relatively generalised and transparent derivational morphology. Full article
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