30.2674, Books: Agreement in Language Contact: Dolberg

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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 15:33:11
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Agreement in Language Contact: Dolberg

 


Title: Agreement in Language Contact 
Subtitle: Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 208  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.208 


Author: Florian Dolberg

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262417 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262417 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262417 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203298 Pages: 351 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203298 Pages: 351 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203298 Pages: 351 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old
English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle
English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the
change from one to the other is anything but: more than 120 years of research
into the matter provided no prevailing opinion – let alone a consensus –
regarding how it proceeded or why it occurred. The present study is the first
to address this issue in the context of language contact with Old Norse,
assessing this contact influence in relation to both language-formal and
semantico-cognitive factors. This empirical, functional account uses rigorous,
innovative methodology, interdisciplinary evidence, and well-established
models of synchronic variation in diachronic application to draw a
fine-grained picture of the variation, change, and loss of gender from Old to
Middle English and its underlying mainsprings. The resulting plausible and
parsimonious explanations will prove relevant to students and scholars of
historical linguistics, morpho-syntax, language variation and change, or
language contact, to name but a few.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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