Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-15349
Authors: Walkden, George
Klemola, Juhani
Rainsford, Thomas
Title: An overview of contact-induced morphosyntactic changes in Early English
Issue Date: 2023
metadata.ubs.publikation.typ: Buchbeitrag
metadata.ubs.publikation.seiten: 239-277
metadata.ubs.publikation.source: Pons-Sanz, Sara M. (Hrsg.), Sylvester, Louis (Hrsg.): Medieval English in a multilingual context : current methodologies and approaches. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023 (New approaches to English historical linguistics). - ISBN 978-3-031-30949-6, S. 239-277
URI: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-ds-153681
http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/15368
http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-15349
ISBN: 978-3-031-30949-6
Abstract: This chapter gives an overview of changes in morphology and syntax during the medieval English period that are plausibly induced or catalysed by language contact. Our emphasis is on accurately characterising the contact situations involved, and evaluating the evidence, rather than exhaustively listing every possible contact-induced change, and so the discussion is structured around a few case studies involving each of the three languages that medieval English was in most intense contact with: British Celtic, Old Norse, and Old French. We compare and contrast the contact situations in terms of van Coetsem’s (1988) distinction between borrowing and imposition and Trudgill’s (2011) framework of sociolinguistic typology.
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