Middle English

Thomason, Sarah G.

doi:10.1163/22105832-00601010

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Middle English

Author(s): Sarah G. Thomason

Publication date: 2016-01-01

Journal: Language Dynamics and Change

Publisher: BRILL

Keywords: historical syntax, language contact, history of English, Germanic

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Abstract

The Viking hypothesis is fatally flawed, in part because syntax is readily borrowed in intense contact situations, while inflectional morphology usually is not—and Middle English inflectional morphology is overwhelmingly of West Germanic origin. The dismissal of lexical evidence is also misguided: the vast majority of basic vocabulary items come from Old English, not from Norse.

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DOI:: 10.1163/22105832-00601010

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Keywords: historical syntax,language contact,history of English,Germanic

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Keywords: historical syntax, language contact, history of English, Germanic

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