Prime identification in historical languages: the Old English exponent for the semantic prime DIE.

Mateo Mendaza, Raquel

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Prime identification in historical languages: the Old English exponent for the semantic prime DIE.

dc.contributor.author	Mateo Mendaza, Raquel
dc.contributor.department	Universidad de La Rioja	es
dc.date.accessioned	2025-07-16T10:27:10Z
dc.date.available	2025-07-16T10:27:10Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Mateo Mendaza, R. (2025). Prime Identification in Historical Languages: The Old English Exponent for the Semantic Prime DIE. International Journal of English Studies, 25(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.602341
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.602341
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131 (Internet)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/157445
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	This research has been funded through the grant PID2020-119200GB-I00 (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), which is gratefully acknowledged.	en
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Semantic Primes	en
dc.subject	Natural Semantic Metalanguage	en
dc.subject	Historical Linguistics	en
dc.subject	Old English	en
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Prime identification in historical languages: the Old English exponent for the semantic prime DIE.	en
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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