Post-Adpositions in Old English.

The article focuses on the distribution of post-adpositions (PAPs) in a medium-sized annotated corpus and in the "Corpus of Old English in Electronic Form," an input amounting to more than 700,000 running words and 1,061 instances of PAPs. It examines the types of semantically equivalent appositiona...

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Publicado en:English Studies Vol. 91; no. 1; pp. 89 - 112
Autores principales: Miranda-García, Antonio, Calle-Martín, Javier
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2010
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Sumario:The article focuses on the distribution of post-adpositions (PAPs) in a medium-sized annotated corpus and in the "Corpus of Old English in Electronic Form," an input amounting to more than 700,000 running words and 1,061 instances of PAPs. It examines the types of semantically equivalent appositional constructions co-occurred in Old English (OE) and under which circumstances each of them was possibly to occur. It describes the source data and the methodological procedure followed. It offers analysis of the corpus instances in context.