Old English verbs of learning: Information and knowledge acquisition

SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature. ◽

10.17811/selim.26.2021.25-56 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 25-56

Author(s):

Miguel Lacalle Palacios

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Acquisition ◽

Old English ◽

Theoretical Basis ◽

Verb Classes ◽

Role And Reference Grammar ◽

Reference Grammar

The aim of this article is to provide an inventory of Old English verbs belonging to the class of learning on the grounds of their common semantic components and shared grammatical behavior. The framework of verb classes and alternations and Role and Reference Grammar provide the theoretical basis for this study. Both textual and lexicographical sources have been used to select the data for the analysis of the linking between semantics and syntax with these verbs. The main conclusion of the article is that, considering the constructions and alternations in which they are found in Old English, the verbs (ge)frignan, (ge)leornian, ofācsian, and onfindan are the best candidates for membership of the class of verbs of learning.

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Old English verbs of prohibition. Grammatical behaviour and class membership

SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature. ◽

10.17811/selim.24.2019.1-28 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Ana Elvira Ojanguren López

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Model ◽

Old English ◽

Class Membership ◽

Verb Classes ◽

Role And Reference Grammar ◽

Reference Grammar ◽

English Verb

The aim of this article is to determine if the Old English verbs bewerian, forbēodan, foresacan, forwiernan, stīeran and tōcweþān constitute a unified class of prohibition. The theoretical model is provided by the framework of verb classes and alternations, as well as by Role and Reference Grammar. Class membership requires not only similar meaning components but also shared grammatical behaviour. While bewerian, forbēodan and forwyrnan are found in three syntactic configurations, and in the Nominalisation and Undergoer alternations, foresacan, stīeran and tōcweþān occur in one syntactic configuration only and do not take part in these alternations. The main conclusion of this article is that these verbs do not show a similar grammatical behaviour and, therefore, cannot be said to represent a consistent verbal class.Keywords: Old English; verb classes; alternations; Role and Reference Grammar

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Old English verbs of increasing: the semantics and syntax of change in size

Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas ◽

10.4995/rlyla.2021.14700 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 123

Author(s):

Miguel Lacalle Palacios

Keyword(s):

Old English ◽

Verb Classes ◽

Role And Reference Grammar ◽

Reference Grammar ◽

Theoretical Side

This article aims at defining a class of Old English verbs of increasing based on both their common semantic components and grammatical behavior. On the theoretical side, the framework of verb classes and alternations is combined with Role and Reference Grammar. The data selected for this study have been extracted from both textual and lexicographical sources. After the analysis of the linking between syntax and semantics in this set of verbs, the conclusion is reached that āðindan, āweaxan, ēacan, (ge)ēacnian and (ge)weaxan are the best candidates for membership of the verbal class of increasing, considering the constructions and alternations that they present.

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The interrelation of semantic structure and syntactic variation in Old English verb classes: catalogue of syntactico-semantic constructions

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses ◽

10.14198/raei.2005.18.05 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 111 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marta González Orta

Keyword(s):

Old English ◽

Semantic Representation ◽

Semantic Structure ◽

Syntactic Variation ◽

Verb Classes ◽

Lexical Representations ◽

Role And Reference Grammar ◽

Reference Grammar ◽

Lexical Rules ◽

Core Meaning

The aim of this paper is to motivate the syntactic and morphological behaviour of the Old English verbs which share the core meaning of 'to remember', 'to emit a smell', 'to produce a sound' and 'to speak' from their semantic structure. Firstly, as a result of the analysis of these verb subclasses, I will propose a subclass-based lexical template for each lexical subclass. Within the Lexical Grammar Model, lexical templates are conceived as lexical representations where meaning description is encapsulated and interacts with the syntactic behaviour of lexical units. In order to construct a lexical template, Role and Reference Grammar logical structures will be complemented by a semantic decomposition which will define different lexical (sub-)classes. Secondly, the Lexical Template Modelling Process will stipulate the linking between the syntactic and semantic representation of these verbs. This process will establish the lexical rules that account for the mapping between the different semantic constructions and the syntactic structures and alternations in which these verbs participate and the lexical templates codified by these verb subclasses. As a result, a catalogue of the syntactico-semantic constructions exhibited by these Old English verbal predicates will be provided.

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Typology and diachrony of converbs in Indo-Aryan

Diachronica ◽

10.1075/dia.19067.str ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Krzysztof Stroński ◽

Leonid Kulikov

Keyword(s):

Recent Discussion ◽

Verbal System ◽

Holistic View ◽

Differential Object Marking ◽

Role And Reference Grammar ◽

Reference Grammar ◽

Depth Study ◽

History Of ◽

Object Marking ◽

The One

Abstract Non-finite forms constitute an important component of the verbal system of Indo-Aryan (IA) languages. On the one hand, some of them, such as e.g., converbs, have already received proper attention in historical linguistics and typological literature, with regard to Old Indo-Aryan (OIA), Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA) and New Indo-Aryan (NIA) (cf. Tikkanen 1987; Peterson 1998; Subbarao 2012 among others). Other forms, such as participles, have usually been analysed in the wider context of reorganisation of a finite verbal system which led to alignment change (for recent discussion see Dahl and Stroński 2016). On the other hand, adverbial participles or infinitives have so far been under-studied (cf. Sigorski 2005), particularly within early NIA. This period in the history of IA languages witnessed several important morphosyntactic developments and still requires in-depth study, particularly due to the lack of well-edited corpora. The aim of the present paper is to partly fill this gap by highlighting major trends in the development of constructions based on various non-finite forms in early NIA. We focus on main argument marking in converbal chain constructions and its interplay with the animacy hierarchy. We demonstrate a relative stability of differential case marking (DCM), focusing mainly on conditions on differential subject marking (DSM) and differential object marking (DOM). In addition, we compare converbal chain constructions with participial absolute constructions (AC). Finally, in order to give a holistic view of converbal constructions, we verify the type of linking instantiated by them, focusing on three scopal parameters in converbal constructions (Tense, Illocutionary Force and Negation) and using the apparatus of Role and Reference Grammar and Multivariate Analysis.

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Automatically Representing TExt Meaning via an Interlingua-based System (ARTEMIS). A further step towards the computational representation of RRG

Journal of Computer-Assisted Linguistic Research ◽

10.4995/jclr.2017.7788 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 61 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ricardo Mairal-Usón ◽

Francisco Cortés-Rodríguez

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Semantic Representation ◽

Analysis Data ◽

Logical Structure ◽

Automatic Generation ◽

Role And Reference Grammar ◽

Reference Grammar ◽

Level 1 ◽

Computational Resources ◽

Computational Representation

Within the framework of FUNK Lab – a virtual laboratory for natural language processing inspired on a functionally-oriented linguistic theory like Role and Reference Grammar-, a number of computational resources have been built dealing with different aspects of language and with an application in different scientific domains, i.e. terminology, lexicography, sentiment analysis, document classification, text analysis, data mining etc. One of these resources is ARTEMIS (Automatically Representing TExt Meaning via an Interlingua-Based System), which departs from the pioneering work of Periñán-Pascual (2013) and Periñán-Pascual & Arcas (2014). This computational tool is a proof of concept prototype which allows the automatic generation of a conceptual logical structure (CLS) (cf. Mairal-Usón, Periñán-Pascual and Pérez 2012; Van Valin and Mairal-Usón 2014), that is, a fully specified semantic representation of an input text on the basis of a reduced sample of sentences. The primary aim of this paper is to develop the syntactic rules that form part of the computational grammar for the representation of simple clauses in English. More specifically, this work focuses on the format of those syntactic rules that account for the upper levels of the RRG Layered Structure of the Clause (LSC), that is, the core (and the level-1 construction associated with it), the clause and the sentence (Van Valin 2005). In essence, this analysis, together with that in Cortés-Rodríguez and Mairal-Usón (2016), offers an almost complete description of the computational grammar behind the LSC for simple clauses.

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Semantic Parameters of Basque Split Intransitivity in Role and Reference Grammar

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society ◽

10.3765/bls.v20i1.1468 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 145

Author(s):

Lincoln Ward Cutting

Keyword(s):

Annual Meeting ◽

General Session ◽

Role And Reference Grammar ◽

Reference Grammar ◽

Split Intransitivity ◽

Semantic Parameters

Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)

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The Syntactic Role of Arabic Language on Accusative Adjunct in The Book Nashā'iḥul-‘Ibād: An Overview to The Grammar Role and Reference

Jurnal CMES ◽

10.20961/cmes.15.1.49604 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 47

Author(s):

Khabib Akbar Maulana ◽

Moh Masrukhi

Keyword(s):

Research Method ◽

Sampling Method ◽

Arabic Language ◽

Purposive Sampling ◽

Role And Reference Grammar ◽

Nominal Phrase ◽

Reference Grammar ◽

Adverbial Phrase ◽

Descriptive Qualitative

This research explains the categories and syntactic roles of Arabic in the book Nashâ? Iħul-ʕIbâd by Syekh Nawawi Al-Bantani based on the theory of roles and references grammar. This research is a descriptive qualitative with a purposive sampling method of presenting data that is separated from 112 data. The research method used in this study is the Agih method with basic techniques for direct elements using advanced techniques in the form of markup reading techniques on lingual element in Arabic grammar. The theory for determining the accusative adjunct markers of Arabic used is Valin's (1993) role and reference grammar theory using Kroeger's (2005) definition to look for core and peripheral elements in sentences. This research has found that the word categories of accusative adjunct can be the noun 'ism', the determiner 'muhaddad', the adjective 'naʕt', the adverb 'dharf', and the negation 'nafi', while the phrase category is the nominal phrase 'al-ʕibarah. al-ismiyyah ', the adverbial phrase 'al-ʕibarah adh-dharfiyyah ', and the adjective phrase' al-ʕibarah an-naʕʈiyyah '. In terms of the role of grammar syntax role and reference, adjunct can have any function as a clause modifier with evidential functions, as a core modifier with a function of manner, place, location, cause, and quantity, and also as a nucleus modifier with a affirmating function.

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