Morphological Relatedness and the Typology of Adjectival Formations in Old English

This article addresses the question of the types of morphological relatedness that the lexical class of the adjective presents in Old English. After an exhaustive analysis of the derivational paradigms of the language based on data retrieved from the lexical database of Old English Nerthus, the foll...

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Autor: Novo Urraca, C. [0000-0002-4678-9727]
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de La Rioja (UR)
Repositorio:RIUR. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Rioja
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.dialnet.es:doc/5bbc6868b750603269e8085b
Acceso en línea:https://investigacion.unirioja.es/documentos/5bbc6868b750603269e8085b
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:derivational morphology
lexical paradigm
morphological relatedness
recursivity
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Sumario:This article addresses the question of the types of morphological relatedness that the lexical class of the adjective presents in Old English. After an exhaustive analysis of the derivational paradigms of the language based on data retrieved from the lexical database of Old English Nerthus, the following conclusions are reached. Two types of morphological relatedness are identifiable, namely explicit and implicit. Short distance and long distance relations overlap with explicit and implicit morphological relatedness. These relations involve four types of units, to wit lexical primes (the bases of lexical paradigms), derived adjectives (the input to recursive processes of word-formation), target adjectives (the output of processes that cannot be inputted to a recursive process) and morphologically unrelated adjectives (which are neither the input nor the output of a process of word-formation). © 2016 Society for Studia Neophilologica.