Christiane Gante Mag. A.
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enominative *ga-Nominals in
Early Old High German.
Word Formation, Grammaticalization, Productivity and Inner Germanic Comparison.
With a Dictionary of the Early Old High German Formations.
Starting Point:
Outline of PhD-Thesis:
Analyses:
• extensive research literature on verbal
and deverbative *ga-formations
• analyses of *ga-nominals (OHG and
later periods, other OGmc. languages)
• hardly any research literature on
denominative *ga-formations
=> first systematic corpus based analysis,
new clearly defined terminology
• dictionary of OHG denominative
*ga-nominals attested before 900 AD
• types of word formation
• sources' impact on word formation
• frequency and productivity
Dictionary:
• alphabetical order according to
lexical base
• list of all attestations
• exemplary quotations
• references on comparable forms in
other Germanic languages
PIE *ko(m) '(together) with'
Central Questions:
OIr. con(-) 'id.'
• What types of word formation can be
found among the denominative *ganominals and to what extent are they
diachronically interrelated?
Lat. cum, co(m/n)- 'id.'
PGmc. *ga(-) '(together) with'
• How productive are
these types of word
formation?
PGmc. *-ja [+neuter]
Corpus:
• all edited OHG
sources attested
before 900 AD
• Which factors affect
their productivity?
• dictionaries of later
periods and OGmc.
languages
Results:
• clearly
distinguishable types
of word formation
◦ denominative:
Comines princeps
• unsuffixed
milicię crauo uł
(Bahuvrîhi-)types
kasind
• suffixed types
◦ 'base ambigue' types (denominative/deverbative):
• denominative adjectives ~ deverbative adjectives
◦ e.g. 'pseudo-participles' ~ past participles
• collective nouns ~ abstract nouns
• associative nouns ~ agent nouns
• type of source affects frequency of *ga-formations
◦ text glosses: many
morphological calques
fig. 1: (869/71) Otfrid 3,8,3 (Ms. Heidelberg Cpl 52)
Lemma
comment on
word formation
fig. 2: A9.Jh. TrA01 (Cod. Karlsruhe IC, 66v) StSGl. 1,276,52
◦ Otfrid:
coeui
morpheme structure
attestations,
quotations
date of
attestation,
comments
on rhyme,
alliteration etc.
comparable
forms in
other OGmc.
languages
fig.4: dictionary entry gibirgi
gialtrun
fig. 3: A9.Jh. TrT08 (Gll. zu Daniel, Cod. Karlsruhe IC, 107a) StSGl. 1,665,5
*ga-formations used for end rhyme and alliteration
PhD-Thesis (to be defended June, 2nd, 2016). Denominale *ga-Nomina im Frühalthochdeutschen. Wortbildung, Grammatikalisierung, Produktivität und innergermanischer Vergleich. Mit einem Wörterbuch der frühalthochdeutschen Bildungen.
Academy of Sciences and Humanities Göttingen, Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm (Revised Edition)
© Christiane Gante 2016
PhD-Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Schmid, Institut für Germanistik, Universitäty of Leipzig
PD Dr. Frank Heidermanns, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch,
Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig