ASPECTS OF OLD ENGLISH WORD-FORMATION: COMPOUNDS IN THE OE ELEGIES AND THE CAPITULA OF THEODULF Cover Image

ASPECTS OF OLD ENGLISH WORD-FORMATION: COMPOUNDS IN THE OE ELEGIES AND THE CAPITULA OF THEODULF
ASPECTS OF OLD ENGLISH WORD-FORMATION: COMPOUNDS IN THE OE ELEGIES AND THE CAPITULA OF THEODULF

Author(s): Hans Sauer
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: compounds; morphology; Old English; semantics; variation; wordformation;

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses compounds and related formations in some of the Old English elegies as well as in the ThCapA (Theodulfi Capitula, A version). Both texts (or groups of texts) show the productivity of compounding, and both show that noun + noun compounds were the most productive type of compounds. But they also show significant differences: Whereas many compounds in the elegies are due to the poetic principle of variation, some compounds in the ThCapA are or may be loantranslations based on Latin models.

  • Issue Year: 25/2019
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 215-235
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: English
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