The Author : Anna Zbierska-Sawala was born in 1959. She studied English philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Since 1982 she has taught courses in Linguistics and the History of English. In 1989/1990 she spent ten months at Edinburgh University as a visiting research worker. She received her Ph.D. in 1991 and is now Adjunct Professor at the Institute of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.
Early Middle English Word Formation. Semantic Aspects of Derivational Affixation in the AB Language
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- Nombre de pages123
- ISBN3-631-45629-8
- EAN9783631456293
- Date de parution01/12/1992
- CollectionBamberger Beiträge zur Englisc
- ÉditeurPeter Lang
Résumé
The author of this book applies the assumptions and methods of Langacker's cognitive grammar to analyse the word formation patterns of Early Middle English. The analysis is based on the language of the Ancrene Wisse and the Katherine Group, literary texts that are unique in combining standardization with features typical of a system at a time of major transition. The description is introduced by the discussion of the relevant theoretical issues such as linguistic categorization or the metaphorical extension of the spatio-temporal meanings.
The author uses data from Modern English and Polish to support some of her theoretical conclusions.
The author uses data from Modern English and Polish to support some of her theoretical conclusions.