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- Title: Lexical and Non-Lexical Linguistic Variation in the Vocabulary of Old English.
- Author : revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Atlantis
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
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This paper deals with different theoretical aspects of lexical variation and change. More exactly, I will focus here on the analysis of some of the different ways lexical and non-lexical linguistic variation can interact over long periods of time. My analysis is based on the Functional-Lexematic Model, which conceives the lexicon of a language as a grammar. Its central unit of description is the word, which appears with all its syntactic, morphological, semantic and pragmatic properties. Macrostructurally, predicates are interconnected by cohesive, associative and encyclopaedic functions, forming what has been called the "semantic architecture of the lexicon." I will deal here with three basic concepts of lexical analysis and their applications to the historical vocabulary of English: (1) word-frequency, (2) syntactic variation, and (3) lexical productivity. I will argue that the relative position of an Anglo-Saxon lexeme within the semantic architecture of OE can be calculated in terms of--at least--the following three diffferent types of variation: onomasiological, syntactic and morphological-derivational. Since defining a verb means locating it in semantic space, the resulting hierarchical ordering into lexical domains and subdomains implies a reliable reconstruction of the mental lexicon of the Anglo-Saxons. In doing so, I will try to show how these easily observable variational phenomena can be used in order to compensate for the shortcomings of historical lexicology and semantics. 1. Introduction
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