21.4915, Qs: Complete List of Middle and Old English Affixes

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Subject: 21.4915, Qs: Complete List of Middle and Old English Affixes

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Date: 30-Nov-2010
From: Hagen Peukert [hagen.peukert at uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: Complete List of Middle and Old English Affixes
 

	
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Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:18:21
From: Hagen Peukert [hagen.peukert at uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: Complete List of Middle and Old English Affixes

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Dear Colleagues,

Is there any exhaustive list of Middle English affixes, that is, 
derivational as well as inflectional prefixes and suffixes for the entire 
time range (1100-1500)? It definitely exists for Modern English, but I 
have not encountered it for Old English or Middle English. Most 
dictionaries would not list affixes separately. I would appreciate any 
advice or reference. 

My most recent project is to build a Morphological Parser for Old and 
Middle English. This software takes Middle or Old English texts (or 
tagged corpora such as the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English) 
as an input and performs a quantitative analysis of the morphology. 
This will allow us to see how certain affixes developed, how productive 
they were (provided that you input enough data from the respective 
time frames), and how they were actually used. Once the project is 
finished, I would be glad to share the Parser with other researchers in 
the field, e.g. on LINGUIST List.

Thank you,
Hagen Peukert 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology

Subject Language(s): Middle English (enm)
                     Old English (ang)




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