Base etymology in the historical thesauri of deverbatives in English
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Michael Bilynsky
Abstract
Studied in the paper is a reflection of the synonymous strings of verbs in their shared-root coinages over time. The differences in the word-forming and thesaurus-construing potential between native and Romance etymology (Latinate and/or French lineage) parent verbs as regards substantive, adjectival, participial and second order deverbal classes have been established. The cross-sections of the historical thesaurus are forgeable on the parent verbs’ etymological affiliation and coinages’ suffix variance or uniformity. An electronic framework for the study of the rise of verbal and deverbal synonymous strings over time reconstructed on the basis of the OEDtextual prototypes proceeds from the constituents sequential placement or absolute dating. Two models of quantification suitable for determining the extent of similarity in the formation of synonymous strings are suggested. The etymological affiliation of parent verbs proves to be selectively related to the diachronic expansion of the respective (sub-)strings of varied lengths and category/formative(s) status.
Abstract
Studied in the paper is a reflection of the synonymous strings of verbs in their shared-root coinages over time. The differences in the word-forming and thesaurus-construing potential between native and Romance etymology (Latinate and/or French lineage) parent verbs as regards substantive, adjectival, participial and second order deverbal classes have been established. The cross-sections of the historical thesaurus are forgeable on the parent verbs’ etymological affiliation and coinages’ suffix variance or uniformity. An electronic framework for the study of the rise of verbal and deverbal synonymous strings over time reconstructed on the basis of the OEDtextual prototypes proceeds from the constituents sequential placement or absolute dating. Two models of quantification suitable for determining the extent of similarity in the formation of synonymous strings are suggested. The etymological affiliation of parent verbs proves to be selectively related to the diachronic expansion of the respective (sub-)strings of varied lengths and category/formative(s) status.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgements vii
- List of abbreviations ix
- Editors’ introduction xi
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Part I. Etymology
- Etymology and the OED 3
- On the etymological relationships of wank , swank , and wonky 21
- Base etymology in the historical thesauri of deverbatives in English 29
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Part II. Semantic fields
- The global organization of the English lexicon and its evolution 65
- Repayment and revenge 85
- Semantic change in the domain of the vocabulary of Christian clergy 99
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Part III. Word-formation
- Abstract noun ‘suffixes’ and text type in Old English 119
- The lexicalisation of syncope 133
- Oriented - ingly adjuncts in Late Modern English 147
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Part IV. Textlinguistics, text types, politeness
- Historical text linguistics 167
- Repetitive and therefore fixed? 189
- Politeness strategies in Late Middle English women’s mystical writing 209
- A diachronic discussion of extenders in English remedies found in the Corpus of Early English Recipes (1350–1850) 223
- “It is with a trembling hand I beg to intrude this letter” 237
- Genre analysis 255
- Index 267
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgements vii
- List of abbreviations ix
- Editors’ introduction xi
-
Part I. Etymology
- Etymology and the OED 3
- On the etymological relationships of wank , swank , and wonky 21
- Base etymology in the historical thesauri of deverbatives in English 29
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Part II. Semantic fields
- The global organization of the English lexicon and its evolution 65
- Repayment and revenge 85
- Semantic change in the domain of the vocabulary of Christian clergy 99
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Part III. Word-formation
- Abstract noun ‘suffixes’ and text type in Old English 119
- The lexicalisation of syncope 133
- Oriented - ingly adjuncts in Late Modern English 147
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Part IV. Textlinguistics, text types, politeness
- Historical text linguistics 167
- Repetitive and therefore fixed? 189
- Politeness strategies in Late Middle English women’s mystical writing 209
- A diachronic discussion of extenders in English remedies found in the Corpus of Early English Recipes (1350–1850) 223
- “It is with a trembling hand I beg to intrude this letter” 237
- Genre analysis 255
- Index 267
