DOI: 10.5176/2251-3566_L318.17
Authors: Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
Abstract: The aim of this article is to to determine how widespread the inflection of the Old English participles is, and whether the present and the past participle of Old English show the same degree of variation as to inflection. A total of 4,783 participles have been found in the corpus. The evidence suggests that the process of deflexion must have begun in the past participle, which evinces around one half of uninflected forms.
Keywords: Old English; Inflection; Corpus Analysis; Participle
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