Abstract
In this paper, I propose a diachronic reconstruction of a part of the Old English vocabulary of birth. Starting from a careful and systematic analysis of the semantic entries in the Thesaurus of Old Englishand of the syntactic complementation patterns in the Helsinki Corpus and the Oxford English Dictionary, I have attempted to derive the internal hierarchical grading of the verbs included in the OE lexical subdimension of birth: in this way, the most significant parameters of categorization can be determined, each of which highlights a given aspect of how this vital process was categorized by Anglo-Saxon speakers, and how its collective mental representation has been changed in the later history of the English language.
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