Beschreibung
This survey is a linguistic analysis of the morphological shapes and structures, the semantics and the etymological history of the Old English complex plant names. Their analysis requires the interplay of various disciplines, for instance word-formation, structural and cognitive semantics, contact linguistics, botany, and socio-cultural history.
Autorenportrait
Ulrike Krischke received her PhD in
at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 2010. Since 2006, she has been a lecturer and research assistant at the Department of English and American Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.
Inhalt
Contents: Old English complex plant names – Taxon, natural kind term, lexeme? – Plant world, plant names and the Anglo-Saxon medico-botanical texts – Folk taxonomy and scientific taxonomy – Morphology and word-formation – Semantics – Associative relations – Motivations – Diachronic stratification and the effects of language contact – Latin loan influence.
