Middle English

Thomason, Sarah G.

doi:10.1163/22105832-00601010

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Middle English : English, Not Norse

Author(s): Sarah G. Thomason

Publication date (Electronic): 2016

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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Sarah G. Thomason

Journal

Journal ID (e-issn): 22105832

Title: Language Dynamics and Change

Abbreviated Title: LDC

Publisher: Brill (The Netherlands )

ISSN (Print): 2210-5824

ISSN (Electronic): 2210-5832

Publication date (Electronic): 2016

Volume: 6

Issue: 1

Pages: 42-45

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University of Michigan thomason@ 123456umich.edu

Article

DOI: 10.1163/22105832-00601010

SO-VID: 8b3f4cf7-d54f-4f4c-8865-e47fcac60cb0

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Languages of Asia,General linguistics,Linguistics & Semiotics,Languages of Europe,Levels of linguistic analysis

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

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Languages of Asia, General linguistics, Linguistics & Semiotics, Languages of Europe, Levels of linguistic analysis