The paper redefines the Old English formative -a, marking n-stem masculine derivatives, both as a derivational and inflectional marker. It surveys its derivational functions in Proto-Germanic and Old English, demonstrating that it had not given up its double function, which was fully in keeping with the inflectional typological tenor of the earliest English, until the Early Middle English period. The paper goes then on to suggest a tentative typology of suffixes from Proto-Germanic to Old English along a cline connecting the agglutinating and inflectional pole, with an increasing diachronic predominance of suffixes of the latter type. This tendency, exemplified by the history of the formative -a, is seen as one of the ways in the Old English system to establish homological derivation as the dominant principle of word-formation, against the background of a gradual reorientation of the language from stem-based to word-based morphology.
The Case of Old English N-stem Masculine Derivatives: A typological contribution to categorization in English word-formation
Autoři:
Editoři:
Vydavatel:
Místo vydání:
Rok vydání:
Strany:
73-91
ISBN/ISSN:
9788073082994 (vyhledej v knihovnách)
Typ publikace:
Jazyk:
Kontakt:
jan.cermak@ff.cuni.cz
Klíčová slova:
Abstrakt:
Bibliografie:
Campbell, A. (1983) Old English Grammar, rev. ed, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Clemoes, P. (1997) AElfric's Catholic Homilies, The First Text, Early English Texts Society, s.s. 17, London.
Čermák, F. (forthcoming) Lexikon a sémantika [Lexicon and Semantics], Praha: Nakladatelstvi Lidove Noviny.
Čermák, J. (2002) ‘A Diachronic Perspective on Old English Deadjectival Nouns Ending in -þ(u)/-t(u)’ Brno Studies in English 28, 19-25.
Čermák, J. (forthcoming) 'AElfric's Homilies and Incipient Typological Change in the 12th Century English Word-Formation', Prague Studies in English 25.
Dictionary of Old English: A to F, on CD-ROM (2003) Dictionary of Old English, Toronto: University of Toronto.
Kastovsky, D. (1992) 'Semantics and Vocabulary', in R. M. Hogg (ed.) The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume I: The Beginnings to 1066, 290-409, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kastovsky, D. (2006) 'Typological Changes in Derivational Morphology', in A. van Kemenade and B. Los (eds) The Handbook of the History of English, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 151-176.
Krahe, H. and W. Meid (1967) Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III. Wortbildungslehre, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Lamprecht, A., D. Šlosar and J. Bauer (1984) Historická mluvnice češtiny [A Historical Grammar of Czech], Praha: SPN.
Lass, R. (1994) Old English: A historical linguistic companion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Morris, R. (ed.) (1867, 1868/1988) Old English Homilies, Early English Texts Society 29, 34. First Series, 2 vols, London.
Popela, J. (2006) Skaličkova jazyková typologie [Skalička's Language Typology], ed. by B. Vykypěl and V. Boček, Brno: Masarykova univerzita.
Quirk, R. and C. L. Wrenn (1957) An Old English Grammar, 2nd ed, London: Routledge.
Sgall, P. (1995) 'Prague School Typology', in M. Shibatani and T. Bynon (eds) Approaches to Language typology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 49-85.
Skalička, V. and P. Sgall (1994) 'Praguian Typology of Languages', in Ph. A. Luelsdorff (ed.) Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics: A Short Introduction, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 333-357.
Vykypěl, B. (2007) 'Zu den Prager Sprachtypen', Linguistica Pragensia XVIII/1, 47-53.
Warner, R. D. N. (ed.) (1917) Early English Homilies from the Twelfth-Century MS. Vespasian D.XIV. Early English Texts Society 152, London.
