Anglo-Scandinavian language contacts and word order shift in early English

Izabela Czerniak

doi:10.3726/978-3-653-00857-9

Anglo-Scandinavian language contacts and word order shift in early English

Izabela Czerniak

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The current paper sheds light on one of the most significant changes in the English language occurring at the early stages of its development. An attempt will be made to trace the emergence of rigid SVO order in Early English, happening as a consequence of overt morphological simplification, which in turn was instigated by medieval Anglo-Scandinavian language contacts. The results of my searches through the prose parsed corpora of Old (YCOE1) and Middle (PPCME2) suggest a receding pattern for the SOV and an increasingly prevailing tendency towards SVO word order in the areas most open to language contact. However, some additional statistical calculations are necessary to fully account for the nature of the change.

Originalspråk	Engelska
Titel på värdpublikation	Foreign Influences on Medieval English
Redaktörer	Jacek Fisiak, Magdalena Bator
Utgivningsort	Frankfurt am Main
Förlag	Peter Lang
Sidor	139-154
Antal sidor	15
ISBN (elektroniskt)	978-3-653-00857-9
ISBN (tryckt)	978-3-631-61424-2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-00857-9
Status	Publicerad - 6 jan. 2011
MoE-publikationstyp	B3 Ej refererad artikel i konferenshandlingar

Publikationsserier

Namn	Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Förlag	Peter Lang

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GlobE: Global English: Typological, contact-linguistic and second-language acquisition perspectives
Czerniak, I. (CoI)
01/01/10 → 31/12/13
Projekt: Finlands Akademi/Övriga Forskningsråd
LANGNET: the LANGNET network
Czerniak, I. (CoI)
01/01/09 → 31/12/11
Projekt: Uppdragsforskning

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the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English
Czerniak, I. (Talare)
12 dec. 2009 → 13 dec. 2009
Aktivitet: Tal eller presentation › Konferenspresentation

Data from my research used in the internationally recognised source on external influence in Early English - Section on Old Norse influence on English morpho-syntax
Czerniak, I. (Deltagare)
Genomslag: Övriga genomslag

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Anglo-Scandinavian language contacts and word order shift in early English

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GlobE: Global English: Typological, contact-linguistic and second-language acquisition perspectives

LANGNET: the LANGNET network

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the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English

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Data from my research used in the internationally recognised source on external influence in Early English - Section on Old Norse influence on English morpho-syntax

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