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ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper is to analyse the suffixation of Old English with special emphasis on two aspects related to recursivity, namely the combinability and the position of suffixes. A distinction is made between suffixes and suffixoids on the basis of boundedness. An exhaustive description of the recursive and non-recursive suffixal formations allows us to draw conclusions regarding the contentful or transpositional status of the suffixes on the basis of two criteria. The first is positional and refers to the position of transpositional suffixes relative to contentful suffixes. The second is distributional and has to do with the frequency of type of transpositional suffixes as compared to contentful suffixes. The conclusion is drawn that -NES in noun formation and -LĪCE in adjective formation are clearly transpositional while -LIC and -FUL have some transpositional properties.
Acknowledgement
This research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant FFI2011-29532.
Notes
1 Nerthus. Available from http://www.nerthusproject.com (accessed January, 2016).
2 Clark Hall.
3 Bosworth and Toller; Sweet.
4 Pilch; Campbell; Kastovsky “Semantics and Vocabulary;” Lass; Quirk and Wrenn.
5 Dietz, “Die altenglischen Präfixbildungen.”
6 Hiltunen; Brinton; Brinton and Traugott.
7 Kluge.
8 Kastovsky, “Semantics and Vocabulary.”
9 Haselow.
10 Campbell; Lass; Quirk and Wrenn.
11 Schön; Seelig.
12 Schuldt; Bammesberger Deverbative jan-Verba des Altenglischen; Stark.
13 Nicolai; Seelig.
14 González Torres, “Continuum Inflection-Derivation,” “Bases of derivation.”
15 Kastovsky, “Old English Suffix -ER(E) .”
16 Davis.
17 von Lindheim, “Die Weiblichen Genussufixe”; Schabram.
18 Möhlig.
19 Munske.
20 Weyhe.
21 Dietz, “Denominale Abstraktbildungen des Altenglischen.”
22 Trips.
23 von Lindheim, “Das Suffix -bære in Altenglischen.”
24 Sauer.
25 Bauer.
26 Dietz, “Denominale Abstraktbildungen des Altenglischen.”
27 Marckwardt.
28 Hallander.
29 De la Cruz.
30 Ibid.
31 Dietz, “Denominale Abstraktbildungen des Altenglischen.”
32 Ibid.
33 Hiltunen; Martín Arista, “OE Strong Verbs.”
34 Lieber.
35 Plag, 38.
36 Bammesberger, Deverbative jan-Verba des Altenglischen, “Place of English;” Hinderling; Kastovsky, “Semantics and Vocabulary;” Seebold; Martín Arista, “Adjective Formation”, “Lexical Negation,” “Projections and Constructions,” “Lexical Database,” “Old English Prefix Ge-,” “Recursivity,” “Noun Layers.”
37 Martín Arista, “Lexical Negation.”
38 Kastovsky, “Semantics and Vocabulary,” 294.
39 Pounder, 82.
40 Ibid.
41 Kastovsky, “Semantics and Vocabulary,” 294.
42 Torre Alonso et al.
43 Martín Arista, “Unification and Separation,” “Typology,” “Projections and Constructions.”
44 Stark.
45 Kastovsky, “Semantics and Vocabulary.”
46 Kastovsky, “Semantics and Vocabulary.”
47 Kastovsky, “Old English Suffix -ER(E),” “Typological Changes.”