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Matching productivity indexes and diachronic evolution: The Old English affixes ful-, -isc, -cund, and -ful

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2016

Raquel Mateo Mendaza
Raquel Mateo Mendaza*
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Universidad de La Rioja
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Abstract

This article measures the productivity index of the Old English suffixes -cund, -ful, and -isc as well as the prefix ful- and checks the results against the diachronic evolution of the affixes. The frameworks brought to the discussion include Type frequency measurement, as well as productivity indexes proposed by Baayen (1992, 1993, 2009) and Trips (2009). The sources are both textual (The Dictionary of Old English Corpus) and lexicographical (the lexical database of Old English Nerthus). The conclusion drawn is that Baayen's (1992, 1993, 2002) index of Global Productivity provides the most consistent results with the diachronic evolution of the affixes.

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Cet article a pour but de mesurer la productivité des suffixes -cund, -ful, et -isc et du préfixe ful- de l'ancien anglais et de considérer les résultats face à l'évolution diachronique de ces affixes. Les cadres théoriques considérés incluent la mesure de la fréquence du type ainsi que les indices de productivité proposés par Baayen (1992, 1993, 2009) et Trips (2009). Les sources des données sont à la fois textuelles (The Dictionary of Old English Corpus) et lexicographiques (Nerthus, la base de données lexicale de l'ancien anglais). Cette étude conclut que l'indice de la productivité globale de Baayen (1992, 1993, 2002) donne les résultats les plus cohérents avec 1'évolution diachronique des affixes.

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Old Englishproductivityword formationaffixationcorpus-based approachancien anglaisproductivitéformation des motsaffixationapproche de corpus
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 1 - 24
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association. 2015

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