Corpus-Based Linguistics of Old English

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

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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

Note: Abstracts and manuscripts will be reviewed upon arrival so that colleagues engaged in tenure-track processes can be notified of the acceptance of their submissions as early as possible. A letter of the guest editor stating the acceptance of the article for publication will be issued on request.

Sincerely,

Prof. Dr. Javier Martín Martín-Arista
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Keywords

  • old English
  • corpus linguistics
  • linguistic analysis

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For-Verbs in Old English
by Michiko Ogura
Languages 2024, 9(4), 124; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9040124 - 01 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
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corpus-Based Linguistics of Old English)
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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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