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The Old English Verb aswæman

于Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik
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Elena Afros Department of English, St. Jerome’s University Waterloo Kanada

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Abstract

The Old English verb aswæman occurs about twenty five times in the Old English corpus. It appears in poetry, anonymous and Ælfric’s homilies, and psalter glosses. Yet despite its wide distribution, there is no consensus on its meaning. As a result, the Dictionary of Old English treats aswæman as polysemous, assigning it not only the sense ‘to suffer grief’, in which it is attested in Middle English, but also all possible senses of the Latin lemmata which it glosses in the Lambeth Psalter. By including the syntactic and collocational evidence as well as reading the psalter glosses in conjunction with the commentaries, both textual and pictorial, the present article shows that the verb aswæman is monosemic: the only sense in which it is used in Old English is ‘to suffer grief’.

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