Linking syntax and semantics in Old English verbs of "warning"
ISSN: 1133-0392
Year of publication: 2002
Issue: 10
Pages: 157-182
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios ingleses de la Universidad Complutense
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Abstract
Lexical templates have been designed as lexical representations which include semantic and syntactic information within the same format thus reflecting regularities across lexical subdomains. This paper proposes a lexical template for the Old English lexical subdomain of the verbs of ¿warning¿ and provides the linking between the syntactic and semantic representations of the verbs that integrate it. Given the restrictions imposed by a semantic analysis of a historical language, the internal structure of this subdomain will be analysed according to the Lexical Iconicity Principle-Beta Reading