Relevance Theory and Historical Linguistics: Towards a Pragmatic Approach to the Morphological Changes in the Preterite from Old English to Middle English
The aim of this paper is to suggest a pragmatic explanation for some of the morphological changes that occurred in the evolution of the preterite of both weak and strong verbs from Old English to Middle English. In order to do so, this work will be based on Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson, Re...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2005 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) |
| Repositorio: | RIULL. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riull.ull.es:915/18852 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/18852 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | teoría de la relevancia morfología verbal pretérito significado conceptual/ procedimental explicaturas |
| Sumario: | The aim of this paper is to suggest a pragmatic explanation for some of the morphological changes that occurred in the evolution of the preterite of both weak and strong verbs from Old English to Middle English. In order to do so, this work will be based on Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson, Relevance (1986); Relevance (1995); Wilson & Sperber, “Rel- evance”) and will focus only on the weakening and subsequent loss of person and number inflections, as well as on the processes of analogical extension and paradigm levelling. |
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