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题名/责任者:

Agreement in language contact : gender development in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle / Florian Dolberg.

出版发行项:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

出版发行项:

2019

ISBN:

9789027203298 (hardback ; alkaline paper)

ISBN:

9027203296 (hardback ; alkaline paper)

载体形态项:

xix, 349 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

其他载体形态:

Online version: Dolberg, Florian, author. Agreement in language contact Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019] 9789027262417

丛编说明:

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; Volume 208

丛编统一题名:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 208.

个人责任者:

Dolberg, Florian, author.

论题主题:

English language-Gender.

论题主题:

English language-Grammar, Historical.

论题主题:

Linguistic change.

论题主题:

Languages in contact-Great Britain.

中图法分类号:

H314

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-349) and index.

内容附注:

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of examples -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aims and objectives -- 3. Gender -- 4. Viking influence in England -- 5. Methodology -- 6. Analysis -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Index.

摘要附注:

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.

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