RT Journal Article
T1 Updating Old English Dative–Genitives: A Diachronic Construction Grammar Account
A1 Vázquez González, Juan Gabriel
AB This article conducts a corpus linguistics analysis of the dative–genitive subconstructionwithin the broader context of Old English double object complementation. The ditransitive constructionin Old English has traditionally been perceived as a network of alternating subconstructions,including DAT-ACC, ACC-DAT, ACC-GEN, DAT-GEN, and ACC-ACC, as the most productive variants.Recent literature has primarily focused on DAT-ACCs and ACC-DATs because they are the most productivepatterns across the history of English, giving also rise to the current ditransitive construction.However, the less productive case frames have received considerably less recent attention. This work,part of an ongoing investigation aimed at creating an OE DAT-GEN database, builds upon Visser’s list,verified and implemented by findings obtained from a search conducted in the Dictionary of OldEnglish Web Corpus. We obtain 88 verb types and 443 tokens, incorporating 19 new verb types and260 tokens into the database. More significantly, we offer a detailed description of the conceptualdomains and verb classes associated with OE DAT-GENs, which display a semantics characterized bythe presence or absence of actual transfer, as well as transitions from literal to metaphorical transfer,with speech verbs playing a significant role.
PB MDPI
SN 2226-471X (electrónico)
YR 2024
FD 2024-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24082
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24082
LA eng
NO Vázquez-González, J. G. (2024). Updating Old English Dative–Genitives: A Diachronic Construction Grammar Account. In Languages (Vol. 9, Issue 6, p. 213). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060213
NO This research was funded by the I+D+I project grant IPID2020-119200GB-100 [(MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/)], which is gratefully acknowledged here.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026