Autor: Raquel Mateo Mendaza



LEXIS

PANEL COORDINATOR: Roberto Torre Alonso (Universidad de La Rioja). Departamento Filologías Modernas, Edificio de Filología, Universidad de La Rioja, C/ San José de Calasanz, s/n, 26004 Logroño.

roberto.torre@unirioja.es

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Autor: Raquel Mateo Mendaza (Universidad de La Rioja)

Título: Old English Semantic Primes: The Case with (ge)hrinan

Abstract. The aim of this paper concentrates on the search for the main exponent of the semantic prime TOUCH in Old English within the frame of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Research Programme (Goddard and Wierzbicka 1994, 2002a, 2002b). In contrast to previous studies concerning a historical language such as Old English (Martín Arista and Martín de la Rosa, 2006, de la Cruz Cabanillas 2007, Guarddon Anelo 2009), where candidates were selected only in terms of frequency, this analysis is based on semantic, morphological, textual and syntactic criteria. Concerning the methodology, the information has been retrieved from three major sources, namely t he lexical database of Old English Nerthus (), the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary-HTOED (Kay et al. 2009) and the Dictionary of Old English Corpus (DOEC) developed at the University of Toronto. The conclusion is drawn that the Old English exponent for the semantic prime TOUCH is the strong verb hrīnan ‘to touch, lay hold of, reach, seize, strike; have connection with’.

Keywords: Semantic prime, exponent, Natural Semantic Metalanguage, Old English

Autor: Luisa Fidalgo Allo (Universidad de la Rioja)

Título: A Semantic Approach to Lost Old English Adjectives

Abstract: This study aims at analysing from the semantic point of view the Old English adjectives that no longer remain in the lexicon of English. The methodological steps include the retrieval of the data on adjectives from the lexical database of Old English Nerthus (), the comparison with the entries to The Oxford English Dictionary and the semantic analysis of the Old English adjectives not listed by the latter work. Such semantic analysis yields a classification of these Old English adjectives in terms of the categories of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, some additional categor ies have been added from the taxonomy of semantic categories of A Thesaurus of Old English. The conclusion reached shows that lexical loss happens mainly in the area of less prototypical adjectives with evaluative function or referring to transitory mental states. In general, more abstract than concrete adjectives are counted among the losses.

Keywords: Old English, semantic analysis, adjective, lexicology, lexicography

Autor: Raquel Vea Escarza (Universidad de La Rioja)

Título: Deverbal Adjectival Compounds in Old English: A Study of Corpus Frequency

Abstract:This presentation aims at analyzing the productivity of Old English deverbal adjectival compounds. In this research, the productivity of a word-formation process in a historical language is based on an assessment of formal transparency and textual frequency, as put foward by Kastovsky (1992) and Lass (1994). The corpus of analysis has been retrieved from the lexical database of Old English Nerthus (), which turns out a total of 241 compounds, if spelling variants are disregarded. Focusing on the adjunct of the compound, three categories are involved: nominal adjunct (bordhæbbende \'shield-bearing\': bord \'boa rd\'), adjectival adjunct (micelsprecende \'boasting\': micel 1 \'great, intense\'), and adverbial adjunt (eftboren \'born again\': eft \'again\'). By type, the most frequent compounds are the following: æ∂elboren \'of noble birth\' (29), hefigty:me \'heavy, grievous\' (29), u:tancumen 1 \'foreign, strange\' (31), a:ncenned \'only-begotten\' (74), frumcenned \'first-begotten\' (77). Once the type anaysis has been carried out by means of the lexical database, the token analysis resorts to the Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus. The conclusions of the analysis go along the following lines. Regarding the sources, some difficulties arise in establishing the correspondences between lemmatized and unlemmatized forms and, as far as the question of token frequency is concerned, this type of compound is far more frequent in prose than in poetry.

Keywords: Old English, morphology, word-formation, productivity, deverbal adjectival compound

Autor: Carmen Novo Urraca (Universidad de La Rioja)

Título: Recursivity in Old English deadjectival paradigms

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to assess the degree of recursivity of Old English derivational paradigms with adjectival base. The analysis focuses on the interaction of the processes of zero derivation, affixation and compounding, for which evidence has been retrieved from the lexical database of Old English Nerthus (), including 365 deadjectival paradigms that contain a total of 6,292 derivatives in type analysis. Affix sequences (loops) are identified only in instances of a morphological product feeding itself and considered from the point of view of the number of different affixes with which a given affix can combine and from the different positions where t he affix in question can be attached. The conclusion is reached that the parameters considered converge on affixes that are still productive in Present-day English, which supports the view that the analysis of recursivity in terms of affix loops can be used as an indirect way of assessing morphological productivity in a historical language.

Keywords: affixation, affix loops, morphology, Old English, recursivity

Autor: Mª Isabel Balteiro Fernández (Universidad de Alicante)

Título: Sports Anglicisms: traditional dictionaries vs. prescriptive dictionaries vs. Corpora

Abstract: Abstract: English is one of the languages which has most affected Spanish throughout its history and has been the most visible influence from the late 1960s. In this paper, the impact of English on Spanish is considered in the language of sports, concerning both “true” and “false” Anglicisms. In our study, a sample has been compiled on the basis of the Nuevo diccionario de anglicismos, and then the formal and semantic features of the lexical items selected have been analysed and compared to those present in both a prescriptive tool (Diccionario de la Real Academia Española) and in a descriptive and open corpus (Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual). The results yield interesting information on the attitudes towards Anglicisms and towards their degrees of adaptation among users and lexicographers, as well as on the validity and usefulness of very different lexicographical tools.

KEYWORDS: Anglicisms, false Anglicisms, sports terminology, dictionaries, corpora

Autor: Eugenia Esperanza Núñez Nogueroles (Universidad de Granada)

Título: Anglicisms in the Spanish Press: a Study Based on the Daily IDEAL

Abstract: The increasing number of English words that has been permeating the Spanish language for the last decades has brought about a growing interest of scholars in the study of this phenomenon. Thus, I will start by carrying out a brief review of the literature that has dealt with this issue for contextualizing my piece of research. This short paper aims to contribute to that field of study by extracting real use examples of anglicisms which have appeared recently in a Spanish local newspaper, in order to create a corpus of English origin terms that have entered the Spanish language. The press can be considered as an appropriate source for the purposes of this research work since it records faithfully the state of the language a people possesses at each moment. I will expound a systematic model of analysis to be employed when facing the classification of foreign words which are found in a real context of use. I will specially concentrate on the types of anglicism, propounding an adaptation of Pratt (1980)’s taxonomy and exemplifying it by means of several instances (from the corpus) belonging to some of these types.

Keywords: anglicisms, Spanish, press, corpus, taxonomy

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