Figure 1
Annotation pipeline.
Table 1
Total number of verb types and tokens in the historical English corpora and the percentage of verbs that occur with a prefix.
| TOKENS | % PREFIXED | TYPES | % PREFIXED | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| early OE | 35591 | 46.6 | 1085 | 69.7 |
| late OE | 160391 | 48.7 | 1344 | 71.1 |
| early ME | 82915 | 17.4 | 2123 | 46.6 |
| late ME | 88505 | 8.4 | 1852 | 29.9 |
| E1 | 55016 | 3.7 | 1863 | 12.2 |
| E2 | 66681 | 3.6 | 2105 | 12.9 |
| E3 | 54524 | 4.4 | 2157 | 13.0 |
Figure 2
Percentage of types and token occurring with a prefix by etymology of the verb from OE to EModE.
Figure 3
Distribution of native and French prefixes across native and Romance verb bases diachronically, on both type and token level.