Valency patterns and alternations in Old and Middle English

Following the PaVeDa methodology (Luraghi et al. 2024), the aim of this work is to carry out a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the valency classes and alternations in Old and Middle English. The purpose of the study is twofold: on the one hand a synchronic analysis of the two stages, on the other a diachronic perspective, allowing to understand the evolution of this aspect of the language. The result of this corpus-based study are part of the PaVeDa project and will complete the ValPaL database by Goddard (2013) for Present-Day English. This could allow to carry out other more specific studies both in diachrony, covering both the earlier and the contemporary stages of the language, and in a comparative perspective.