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

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....

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Published in:British and American studies : B.A.S 2019, Vol.25 (25), p.215-235
Main Author: Sauer, Hans
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
11th century
Ambiguity
Applied Linguistics
Compound words
Descriptive linguistics
Dictionaries
Elegies
Language and Literature Studies
Latin language
Literary characters
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literary translation
Loanwords
Morphology
Narrative techniques
Nouns
Old English
Poetry
Semantics
Word formation
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1224-3086
2457-7715