LINGUIST List 21.4915 Mon Dec 06 2010 Qs: Complete List of Middle and Old English Affixes Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Hagen Peukert , Complete List of Middle and Old English Affixes Message 1: Complete List of Middle and Old English Affixes Date: 30-Nov-2010 From: Hagen Peukert <hagen.peukertuni-hamburg.de> Subject: Complete List of Middle and Old English Affixes E-mail this message to a friend Dear Colleagues, Is there any exhaustive list of Middle English affixes, that is, derivational as well as inflectional prefixes and suffixes for the entire time range (1100-1500)? It definitely exists for Modern English, but I have not encountered it for Old English or Middle English. Most dictionaries would not list affixes separately. I would appreciate any advice or reference. My most recent project is to build a Morphological Parser for Old and Middle English. This software takes Middle or Old English texts (or tagged corpora such as the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English) as an input and performs a quantitative analysis of the morphology. This will allow us to see how certain affixes developed, how productive they were (provided that you input enough data from the respective time frames), and how they were actually used. Once the project is finished, I would be glad to share the Parser with other researchers in the field, e.g. on LINGUIST List. Thank you, Hagen Peukert Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics                             Historical Linguistics                             Morphology Subject Language(s): Middle English (enm)                             Old English (ang) New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 06-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.