Префіксальні морфеми давньоанглійської мови

Abstract

This course paper is devoted to the analysis of Old English prefix morphemes and their semantic variability. While many papers have been written in the past on the subject of individual prefixes or their grammatical properties, the primary aim of this research is to examine all prefixes from a semantic point of view. The aim of the research is to investigate the semantic properties of Old English prefix morphemes, compare and contrast their productive capability and polysemy in use. In order to achieve this aim, the following tasks of research will be performed: - studying relevant scholastic works and papers; - defining the notion of “prefix”, “native” and “borrowed” morphemes, and other related terminology; - investigating known prefix morphemes using relevant online dictionaries; - constructing a table featuring the known prefix morphemes according to the outlined criteria; - analysing the investigation results by relevant criteria of origin, classification and meaning, arrangement of these results into tables; - highlighting outliers among the analysed prefixes according to their special semantic or combinatory properties; - describing the etymology, semantic and combinatory properties of select prefixes that best represent specific criteria.