Interclausal relations with Old English verbs of inactionSynchronic variation and diachronic change

  1. Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
Revista:
Revista española de lingüística aplicada

ISSN: 0213-2028

Año de publicación: 2021

Volumen: 34

Número: 2

Páginas: 555-584

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.19040.OJA DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Revista española de lingüística aplicada

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Resumen

The aim of this article is to analyse the syntactic and semantic interclausal relations that hold with Old English verbs of inaction. These verbs are studied from the perspective of juncture-nexus relations and the semantic relations Phase, Psych-action and Causative. The results are compared on the grounds of the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy. The comparison of semantic content and syntactic expression evidences discrepancies between too weak juncture-nexus types, such as clausal subordination, and very close semantic relations, like Phase. Two main conclusions are drawn. Firstly, the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy allows us to describe the variation in the complementation of inaction verbs in Old English; and to make predictions on the diachronic axis, given that the loss of finite clause complementation and the change to infinitival complementation presented by Present-Day English verbs of inaction are fully predicted by the IRH. Secondly, semantic relations and nexus types remain stable throughout the change, whereas juncture levels change.

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This research has been funded through the grants FFI2017-83360P and PID2020-119200GB-I00 (Ministry of Science and Innovation), which are gratefully acknowledged

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