Transitivity à la Old English
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Date
2014
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Wydawnictwo KUL
Abstract
The paper is devoted to analysing how the evolving notion of transitivity in its various theoretical guises deals with the Old English data. In the first part it introduces two different classifications of OE verbs, both representing traditional approaches to transitivity, albeit based on different defining criteria. The empirical accuracy and theoretical status of these classifications are subsequently critically evaluated. The second part of the paper attempts to show how the theoretical apparatus available within the major current linguistic theories: formalism and functionalism fares with respect to the OE data. The strengths and weaknesses of all the presented approaches are brought together in the concluding part of the paper, which additionally presents the desiderata concerning prospective analyses of OE transitivity.
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verb, transitivity, passivisation, case alternations, valency alternations, Old English, traditional grammar, formal grammar, functional grammar, czasownik, tranzytywność, pasywizacja, przypadek, walencja czasownika, alternacje walencji, staroangielski, gramatyka tradycyjna, gramatyka formalna, gramatyka funkcjonalna
Citation
Language change : faces and facets, red. M. Charzyńska-Wójcik, J. Wójcik, A. Bloch-Rozmej, Lublin 2014, s. 43-75
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978-83-7702-958-9