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Document Type:
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Book chapter
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Year of publication:
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2017
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Book title:
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Studies in language variation and change 2 : shifts and turns in the history of English
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Page range:
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197-216
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Author/Publisher of the book
(only the first ones mentioned):
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Louviot, Elise
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Place of publication:
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Newcastle upon Tyne
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Publishing house:
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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ISBN:
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978-1-5275-0030-3 , 1-5275-0030-6
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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School of Humanities > Anglistik IV - Anglistische Linguistik/Diachronie (Trips 2006-)
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Subject:
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400 Language, linguistics
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Individual keywords (German):
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Adjektive , Mittelenglisch , Latein
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Keywords (English):
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Code-Switching , adjectives , Middle English , Latin
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Abstract:
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This chapter discusses bilingualism between Middle English and Latin. Applying a model designed originally for present-day data, Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame model, to macaronic sermons from the 14th and 15th centuries, it is shown that the most part the corpus confirms the validity and the predictive power of the
model for historical data, even though some of the apparent idiosyncrasies of the corpus need to be accounted for. In particular, the pressure to write
“correct Latin” in some social contexts might explain why Latin case marking is found where the model predicts its absence.
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