Case Frames of the Old English ImpersonalConstruction: Conceptual Semantic Analysis

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-126
Author(s):  
Jong Sup Jun
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Semantic ◽  
Case Frames

scholarly journals Methodology of lexical-conceptual and semantic analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic spheres of different cultures in the framework of linguistic-conceptual and comparative studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Tatyana A. Chubur
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Conceptual Semantic ◽  
Contrastive Linguistics ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Cultural Linguistics ◽  
Cultural Concept

The article considers the issues of further development of the methodological base of comparative linguistic-conceptual studies, contrastive linguistics and lexicography. It describes and illustrates an integrated, comprehensive and holistic methodology of the lexical-conceptual-semantic analysis of one culturally significant fragment of the semantic space of English and Russian represented in this study by the cultural concept КУЛЬТУРНЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК / CULTURED PERSON. This analysis is presented in the form of a complete algorithm for the comparative study of the chosen national conceptual spheres (known in Russian Cultural Linguistics as conceptospheres). The algorithm includes a sequence of about 25 “steps” aimed to reveal step by step all the convergent and divergent characteristics of the lexical units that name the cultural concepts under study.

scholarly journals Indeterminate pronouns in Old English: a compositional semantic analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-269
Author(s):  
Sigrid Beck
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Compositional Semantics ◽  
Compositional Semantic

AbstractIndeterminate pronouns in Old English (expressions like hwa ‘who/what’ and hwelc ‘which’) permit several interpretations in addition to their use as interrogative pronouns, for example readings as universal or existential quantifiers. They combine with morphological prefixes (ge- ‘and, also’ and a- ‘always, ever’), which change the range of possible interpretations. Old English indeterminate pronouns are shown to contribute a crosslinguistically hitherto unattested pattern of available interpretations. In particular, bare indeterminate pronouns have a universal interpretation and ge-indeterminate pronouns can be both universal and existential. This paper offers an alternative semantic analysis in the spirit of Hamblin (Found Lang 10:41–53, 1973) and Shimoyama (Nat Lang Semant 14:139–173, 2006). A compositional semantics is given for the pronouns and the prefixes, which derives the available readings. The paper ends with a proposal for compositional semantic change relating Old English indeterminate pronouns to their modern descendants.

Uncovering historical semantic connections with the help of image schemata

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Irén Hegedűs ◽  
Gábor Győri
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Phonological Development ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Image Schemata ◽  
Semantic Development ◽  
Cognitive Semantic ◽  
Semantic Evolution ◽  
European Form

Abstract Standard etymological dictionaries agree that Modern English some, same and their Old English cognate sam- ‘half’ descend from the same etymon. However, while explaining their phonological development from the same proto-form is unproblematic, their divergent meanings make the reconstruction of their semantic evolution more challenging. The paper examines the historical semantic connection between these three morphemes from a cognitive perspective and attempts to provide an explanation of how they are conceptually linked to each other. Based on a cognitive semantic analysis of the meanings of these forms, we propose that all three concepts are understood on the basis of and embedded in one and the same image schematic domain – comprised by the general unity/multiplicity schema – and derive from entailments of its subschemata. Such an image schematic account of the conceptual connections between these meanings provides an explanation for the various paths of semantic development from the original etymon leading to the established later meanings. This approach will also facilitate the semantic reconstruction of the ancestral Proto-Indo-European form and help identify the exact cognate relationships between some, same and sam-.

scholarly journals The Adversary or the Devil?: Semantic Analysis of Wiþer-Nouns in Old English

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-137
Author(s):  
Marta Sylwanowicz ◽  
Anna Wojtyś
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Old English ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Evil Spirit ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Diachronic Analysis ◽  
Early English ◽  
Lexical Field ◽  
The Devil

Abstract The examination of Old and Middle English religious lexis has attracted attention of many scholars. However, there are hardly any studies that would offer a comprehensive diachronic analysis of the terms denoting ‘Satan/(the)Devil’. The authors of the present study aim to fill this gap by conducting a systematic analysis of early English lexical field of ‘(the) evil spirit’, beginning with the analysis of Old English items that could potentially refer to ‘Satan/(the)Devil’ This paper discusses wiþer-nouns in Old English with the aim to verify which of them were applied with reference to ‘(the) evil spirit’. Thus, the texts compiled in the Dictionary of Old English Corpus have been searched for all the above-listed items. The identification of their uses has allowed us not only to determine the frequency of the words in question but also to specify whether the sense of ‘(the) evil spirit’ was core or peripheral for each lexeme.

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