The semantic profiles of Old Preterite-present verbs of cognition: witan and cunnan
Authors:
- Agnieszka Elżbieta Wawrzyniak
Abstract
The present paper offers a historical account of the semantic profiles of Old English verbs of cognition, namely of witan and of cunnan with a particular attention paid to the emergence of the epistemic senses in witan and the lack of epistemicity in cunnan. The contexts for the analysis of the OE verbs were taken from The Toronto Corpus. Moreover, the paper attempts to analyse the variety of concepts evolving on the path to epistemicity in witan and to account for the factors which precluded the emergence of such senses in cunnan. The present study aims to show that by relying solely on metaphor itself, the process of the emergence of epistemicity would be distorted. Instead, the paper offers the approach of a gradual shift via metonymy and metaphor in the light of the grammaticalization process.
- Record ID
- UAMab708c5231bb41439539a6e908d84fa5
- Author
- Pages
- 68-79
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.55
- Book
- Abasolo Juan, Juan Abasolo de Pablo Irati, Irati de Pablo Ensunza Ariane Ariane Ensunza (eds.): Hezkuntzari buruzko ekarpenak. Contributions on education (EUDIA-8), 2020, Datos; Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco; Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 133 p., ISBN 978-84-1319-098-3
- Language
- (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 5
- Score source
- publisherList
- Score
- = 5.0, 22-12-2020, MonographChapterAuthor
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info/article/UAMab708c5231bb41439539a6e908d84fa5/
- URN
urn:amu-prod:UAMab708c5231bb41439539a6e908d84fa5
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