Language Contact Effects on Verb Semantic Classes: Lability in Early English and Old French

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30947-2_12" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30947-2_12</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30947-2_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-30947-2_12</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Language Contact Effects on Verb Semantic Classes: Lability in Early English and Old French

Original language description

"Old and Modern English differ sharply in the prevalence of lability, the extent to which verbs alternate between transitive and intransitive frames. Such alternations are often attributed to membership of semantic classes. This study investigates how far verb semantic class membership was a factor conditioning lability in older stages of English, in two semantic areas not displaying lability in PDE, psych verbs, and verbs of the destroy-class. In both classes some expansion took place in the extent of lability. We propose that this occurred under the influence of the corresponding Old French verbs. Lability was present in earlier Old French with some psych verbs and destroy-class verbs, but was declining in the period of maximum French influence on Middle English. Earlier research by the second author argued that this influenced the great expansion of lability in Middle English change of state/position verbs; with these verb classes, unlike with the other two, lability was strongly maintained throughout medieval French. Contact with French strongly influenced English verb lability in the change-of-state/position classes, where Old English had substantial numbers of labile verbs to act as ‘bridgeheads’ for the developing syntactic trend, but was less influential where Old English lacked them, as with psych verbs and destroy-verbs. Lasting contact influence was a composite of factors, influenced by developments in the source language, and also favoured by existing predispositions within the borrowing language."

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

"Medieval English in a Multilingual Context."

ISBN

978-3-031-30946-5

Number of pages of the result

33

Pages from-to

343-375

Number of pages of the book

609

Publisher name

Palgrave Macmillan

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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