Browsing by Subject "Old English"

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    Prime identification in historical languages: the Old English exponent for the semantic prime DIE.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Mateo Mendaza, Raquel; Universidad de La Rioja
    This research focuses on the identification of the Old English exponent for the semantic prime DIE following the approach of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory (Goddard, 2008, 2011; Wierzbicka, 1996). The aim of this paper is to complete the research begun on Old English exponents for the category Life and Death and to review the methodology applied in previous research on this field, which is based on morphological, textual, semantic and syntactic criteria and on the search for examples of the exponent word within the alternative syntactic configurations associated with the prime. The fact that DIE is the only predicate prime which does not allow for optional arguments entails the implementation of a new methodological approach to determine the suitability of the verb selected as prime exponent. All in all, the conclusion is drawn that the OE verb sweltan is selected as the exponent of DIE in Old English.
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    The morpho-syntactic alternations of old English verbs of inaction.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira
    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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    Translating Felix’s Vita sancti Guthlaci into old English : the lexical domains of beauty and aesthetic pleasure and their figurative dimensions in the old English prose Life of Saint Guthlac
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) Minaya Gómez, Francisco Javier
    Based on some of the most recent studies on aesthetic emotions, the purpose of this paper is to examine how aesthetic concepts and aesthetic experience are translated and adapted from Felix’s Vita sancti Guthlaci into Old English prose. Looking into the Old English terms from the lexical domains of beauty and aesthetic pleasure, this paper highlights very specific translation practices on the part of, especially, an Old English author, who implements an additional aesthetic dimension that is not generally found in the Latin source. This paper highlights an apparent hybridity between the cognitive and the sensory in these literary texts, and it also stresses how one of these authors in particular frequently uses sensory evaluations to describe the complex and abstract ideas that are typical of the hagiographical genre.