シバサキ レイジロウ
SHIBASAKI Reijirou
柴﨑 礼士郎 所属 明治大学 総合数理学部 職種 専任教授 |
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発表年月日 | 2023/07 |
発表テーマ | 'On the decline of iwis, i-wis and I wis' |
会議名 | The 22nd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL22) |
主催者 | University of Sheffield |
学会区分 | 国際学会 |
発表形式 | 口頭(一般) |
単独共同区分 | 単独 |
国名 | イギリス |
開催地名 | Sheffield, UK |
開催期間 | 2023/07/03~2023/07/06 |
概要 | Abstract (short version):
This study aims to account for the decline of iwis ‘certain(ly)’ in Middle English (ME) through Early Modern English (EModE) in terms of analogy and reanalysis. An adjective of certainty iwis became adverbialized in the course of ME, while it began to be reanalyzed as i-wis and I wis ‘I know.’ What may have facilitated the reanalysis of iwis as I wis is the rise of the capital I from ic(h) ‘I’ (presumably following diphthongization due to the Great Vowel Shift). Despite such an analogy-based reanalysis, both iwis and I wis followed a course of decline from EModE onward because of the dramatic decrease of the verbs wit and wot, each of which was an anchor to the survival of I wis. |
researchmap用URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/icehl22 |