Carrying verbs across the channel: modelling change in bilingual medieval England


Percillier, Michael ; Schauwecker, Yela ; Stein, Achim ; Trips, Carola



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50806-6
URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-5...
Document Type: Book
Year of publication: 2024
Book title: Carrying Verbs Across the Channel
Place of publication: Cham
Publishing house: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 978-3-031-50805-9 , 978-3-031-50806-6
ISSN: 2946-4056
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Humanities > Anglistik IV - Anglistische Linguistik/Diachronie (Trips 2006-)
Subject: 400 Language, linguistics
Abstract: This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500. It investigates structural copying phenomena and their connection with the lexicon, finding that copying of lexical verbs with a predicate-argument structure accelerated wider grammatical changes, and shows why the traditional notion of borrowing should be replaced with the more adequate concept of copying. The authors start by taking a fresh look at the relationship between Old French and Middle English in light of recent developments in the fi eld of linguistics, arguing that what has traditionally been seen as a diglossic situation (i.e., as contact between the dominating speakers of French and the native speakers of English) should instead be analysed through the framework of bilingualism. The two contact scenarios under scrutiny are the ones between Old French and Middle English and Middle English and the contact variety of Anglo-French. On the basis of their case studies they develop a holistic model of contact-induced change that integrates the bilingual individual as well as the speech community and its sociolinguistic background. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of language history and change, language contact and acquisition, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and psycholinguistics.




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