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• W241370291 abstract "Semantic erosion of Middle English prepositions. By Luis Iglesias-Rabade. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011. Pp. 230. The title of this volume suggests that it focuses on Middle English prepositions, although in order to limit the scope of his study the author has restricted his research to the semantic erosion of twelve ME prepositions expressing location or/and/or direction. The analysis is based on textual evidence provided by a large number of samples extracted from the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts (1991) and the Middle English Dictionary. As the author has shown, Middle English prepositions present unpredictable meanings and some of them, such as of, on, in, at and bi, frequently interchange their use to cover similar semantic connotations. For this very reason the author has decided to base his study of these prepositions on a large corpus which includes texts reflecting different dialects, types of composition, styles and topics. Iglesias-Rabade proposes a quantitative, statistical study based on the ME section of the Helsinki Corpus with a detailed account of all records attested in the corpus. In so doing, a great deal of attention is paid to an analysis of the transition from spatial meanings to other figurative and abstract connotations (semantic erosion). The twelve prepositions under survey are aboue, after, at, bi, bifore, bihinde, biside, in, on, ouer, purgh and under. Since the majority of Middle English prepositions come from adverbs, adjectives or participles, the author provides a detailed study of the transition from lexical items to grammatical or relational items. However, he suggests that it is not possible to separate the meaning of the preposition itself from the meaning conceptualised by its trajector and landmark. Thus, the meaning of a preposition is not self-governing, as the speaker always has a specific location or orientation, that is, a place or thing in mind. The meaning of a preposition, then, depends on the contextual factors. With all this in mind, and following Tyler and Evans (2003: 35-63), the author has developed a polysemic model by accounting for a motivated network of senses associated with spatial and temporal prepositions. In this way Iglesias Rabade proposes some linguistic criteria for determining the primary sense associated with a spatial or temporal semantic network and shows how this network can be extended from its central-primary sense (proto-scene/spatial or temporal) to other figurative or idiomatic senses that may be attested. The book is organised into eight chapters followed by a section for conclusions and an appendix. The first chapter is dedicated to determining the causes and mechanisms which lead both to the process of grammaticalisation and to the loss of lexical properties (semantic erosion). Following Kurylowicz (1965: 52), Heine, Claudi and Hunnemeyer (1991: 2), Hopper and Traugott (2003: 2) and Lehmann (1995:11), the author focalises grammaticalisation as a process by which a lexical item may be transformed into a grammatical item, or a grammatical item may shift from a less grammatical to a more grammatical status. This basic notion of grammaticalisation is applied to the study of prepositions, with the claim that these had initiated a process of loosening pragmatic significance and associative content in Middle English as they became routinised and constrained to a mere morphosyntactic function. Chapter two, Prepositional phrases in Middle English, introduces both the tools for the analysis of Middle English prepositional phrases and the methodology used in the study. The author shows the primary sources in detail, the structure of the database used, and the general data. The database includes two designs. The first one incorporates all the prepositional phrases included in the study and which are found in the whole Helsinki Corpus with reference to Context, Text, Date, Dialect, Text Type, Composition Type, Structure and Sense. …" @default.
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