Aspectual Functions of the Verbal Prefix a- in Old English with Reference to Gothic

This paper is a corpus-based study of the Old English verbal prefix a- which is no longer productive in English today, but survives in a few lexical relics such as arise, awake or ashamed. After a brief discussion of hardly any previous research and its etymology, the paper investigates a range of m...

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Matična publikacija: Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: with Focus on Verbal Categories (ed. I. Wischer, G. Diewald and L. Kahlas-Tarkka), John Benjamins
Glavni autor: Broz, Vlatko (-)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
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