Bondar V.A. The Perfect Tense and the Forms of Past Participle in Old English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2018.4.5
Vladimir A. Bondar
Candidate of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor of Department of English for Academic and Business Communication, Saint Petersburg State University
Universitetskaya Emb., 7-9, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Abstract. The paper deals with peculiarities of using the possessive verb habban + inflected participle II. On the basis of the sample of Old English prose texts we analyze the frequency distribution of instances throughout the periods (dates) which manuscripts from the corpus belong to. We also provide a detailed analysis of semantic and syntactic properties of inflected participles used as part of the construction 'habban + participle II'. Assuming that the semantics of this construction with both inflected and uninflected participles was meaningful, it is suggested to make distinction between the meaning of 'habban + participle II' with inflected participles and with uninflected participles as similar to the semantic shades which can be traced when adjectives are used either attributively or predicatively. The proposed distinction between inflected and non-inflected participles used within the investigated construction retains its resultant-state semantics but brings in certain distinctive shades of meaning in characteristics of the subject and/or object. In particular, an inflected participle indicates durative immanent features of the subject and/or object (similar to attributive characteristics of adjectives), whereas a non-inflected participle describes the subject and/or object based on the model of predicative usage of adjectives emphasizing its contextual, ad hoc, temporary feature.
Key words: perfect tense, statal perfect, semantics, participle forms, morphology, syntax, Old English.
Citation. Bondar V.A. The Perfect Tense and the Forms of Past Participle in Old English. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2, Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], 2018, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 55-67. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2018.4.5
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