The adversary or the devil? Semantic analysis of wiþer-nouns in Old English

Sylwanowicz, Marta; Wojtyś, Anna

The adversary or the devil? Semantic analysis of wiþer-nouns in Old English

dc.contributor.author	Sylwanowicz, Marta
dc.contributor.author	Wojtyś, Anna
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-21T21:22:23Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-21T21:22:23Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	The examination of Old and Middle English religious lexis has attracted attention of many scholars. However, there are hardly any studies that would offer a comprehensive diachronic analysis of the terms denoting ‘Satan/(the)Devil’. The authors of the present study aim to fill this gap by conducting a systematic analysis of early English lexical field of ‘(the) evil spirit’, beginning with the analysis of Old English items that could potentially refer to ‘Satan/(the)Devil’ This paper discusses wiþer-nouns in Old English with the aim to verify which of them were applied with reference to ‘(the) evil spirit’. Thus, the texts compiled in the Dictionary of Old English Corpus have been searched for all the above-listed items. The identification of their uses has allowed us not only to determine the frequency of the words in question but also to specify whether the sense of ‘(the) evil spirit’ was core or peripheral for each lexeme.	pl_PL
dc.identifier.citation	Studia Anglica Posnaniensia vol. 55, 2020, pp. 119-137	pl_PL
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0005
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10593/26100
dc.language.iso	eng	pl_PL
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	pl_PL
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	Old English lexis	pl_PL
dc.subject	wiþer	pl_PL
dc.subject	agent nouns	pl_PL
dc.subject	(the) Devil	pl_PL
dc.subject	evil spirit	pl_PL
dc.subject	corpus study	pl_PL
dc.title	The adversary or the devil? Semantic analysis of wiþer-nouns in Old English	pl_PL
dc.type	Artykuł	pl_PL