Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to apply the methodology of semantic primes by Goddard and Wierzbicka () to Old English in order to check whether it represents a suitable theoretical and methodological amework for the lexical and semantic study of this period.This constitutes a preliminary analysis of the semantic primes grouped as Descriptors: BIG/SMALL.The group is discussed taking into account a sample of texts provided by The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts and supplemented by the information contained in The Dictionary of Old English Corpus.The main sources of information on Old English definitions are A Thesaurus of Old English by Roberts and Kay () and A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by Clark Hall ().The article attempts at being just a first approach to the topic, which could be further developed and extended to other semantic categories.
Author: Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W6887829580