Browsing by Author "Ciszek, Ewa"

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    LME -ship(e)
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2006) Ciszek, Ewa
    In the paper I attempt to present the semantic evolution of the suffix -ship(e) from Early to Late Middle English. The major development in Late Middle English was the replacement of the dominant EME sense ‘a quality’ in a fairly large number of derivatives by one of the originally minor senses, i.e. ‘a status, rank, an office’. The original EME sense ‘a condition, state of being’, however, was commonly preserved in Late Middle English. The suffix was highly productive in the period not only in new coinages of native origin but also in Scandinavian and French hybrids. It appeared in all the dialects.
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    LME -ship(e)
    (Adam Mickiewicz University, 2006) Ciszek, Ewa
    In the paper I attempt to present the semantic evolution of the suffix -ship(e) from Early to Late Middle English. The major development in Late Middle English was the replacement of the dominant EME sense ‘a quality’ in a fairly large number of derivatives by one of the originally minor senses, i.e. ‘a status, rank, an office’. The original EME sense ‘a condition, state of being’, however, was commonly preserved in Late Middle English. The suffix was highly productive in the period not only in new coinages of native origin but also in Scandinavian and French hybrids. It appeared in all the dialects.
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    ME -lich(e)/-ly
    (Adam Mickiewicz University, 2002) Ciszek, Ewa
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    ME -lich(e)/-ly
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2002) Ciszek, Ewa
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    On some French elements in Early Middle English word derivation
    (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 2004) Ciszek, Ewa
    Middle English texts. The addition of the texts has been dictated by the fact that linguistic corpora are by and large inadequate for diachronic word-formation research. The problem of the productivity of linguistic elements in the distant past has been analysed by a number of linguists and numerous criteria of productivity have been proposed. The treatment of the issue has not been free from controversies. Both Dalton-Puffer (1996) and Miller (1997) propose that French derivational suffixes became productive in Late Middle English. My investigations allow me to conclude that some suffixes must have been productive already in Early Middle English. The number of loanwords with transparent bi-morphemic structure, i.e. analysable French suffixes, seems to be sufficiently large at that time to warrant analysability.
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    On some French elements in Early Middle English word derivation
    (Adam Mickiewicz University, 2004) Ciszek, Ewa
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    The Middle English suffix -ish: Reasons for decline in productivity
    (Adam Mickiewicz University, 2012) Ciszek, Ewa
    The aim of the present paper is to investigate the reasons for the significant decline in both the frequency and productivity of the suffix -ish in Middle English. The major factors responsible seem to be the growing popularity of the of + Noun phrases as well as the competition among -ish and other suffixes. The analysis will be preceded with the introduction of some essential facts concerning the semantic development and productivity of the OE suffix -isc in Middle English.