The semantic poles of Old English: Toward the 3D representation of complex polysemy
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Universidad de La Rioja
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ISSN: 2055-7671
Year of publication: 2018
Volume: 33
Issue: 1
Pages: 96-111
Type: Article
More publications in: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
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JCR (Journal Impact Factor)
- Year 2018
- Journal Impact Factor: 0.418
- Journal Impact Factor without self cites: 0.362
- Article influence score: 0.174
- Best Quartile: Q4
- Area: LINGUISTICS Quartile: Q4 Rank in area: 149/184 (Ranking edition: SSCI)
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- Year 2018
- SJR Journal Impact: 0.305
- Best Quartile: Q2
- Area: Linguistics and Language Quartile: Q2 Rank in area: 234/1013
- Area: Information Systems Quartile: Q3 Rank in area: 246/1373
- Area: Computer Science Applications Quartile: Q3 Rank in area: 516/2617
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- Year 2018
- CiteScore of the Journal : 1.6
- Area: Language and Linguistics Percentile: 81
- Area: Linguistics and Language Percentile: 81
- Area: Computer Science Applications Percentile: 39
- Area: Information Systems Percentile: 38
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- Year 2018
- Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 2.18
- Best Quartile: Q1
- Area: HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Quartile: Q1 Rank in area: 44/389
- Area: LINGUISTICS Quartile: Q1 Rank in area: 18/262
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Abstract
This article explains some aspects of the verbal polysemy of Old English by means of the concept of semantic pole, an area of semantic space that represents a core meaning. It draws on the semantic primes of the natural semantic metalanguage, the theoretical constructs of semantic space, and force dynamics as well as semantic maps based on graph theory. In the semantic map, graphs link poles to definiens and lexical nodes, in such a way that the centrality of the poles is indicated, quantitatively, by the number of edges and, qualitatively, by the distance between the pole that exerts the centrifugal force and the pole to which such a force is directed. The conclusion is reached that the semantic poles MOVE, BE, and SAY constitute the core of the verbal lexicon of Old English, considering the semantic space that they occupy and the centrifugal and centripetal forces that produce polysemy originating in these semantic poles. © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of EADH. All rights reserved.