On the areal pattern of ‘brittonicity’ in English and its implications

Description

Content:

1. Introduction

2. Getting to the Seen from the Unseen
2.1. The Theory of the Zones
2.2. Brief Comments on Mechanism

3. The Areal Evidence: Shared Features and Their Dialectal Provenance

4. Explaining the Evidence Seen
4.1. Why It Is Not Due to Mere Misleading Coincidence
4.2. Why It Is Not Due to French Influence
4.3. Why It Is Not Due to Norse Influence
4.4. Why It Is Not Due to English Influence over Brittonic
4.5. Why It Is Due to Brittonic Influence

5. Conclusion
5.1. The Areal Pattern and Its Explanation
5.2. Substrate versus Superstrate
5.3. Some Final Arguments, and Good Questions

6. Addenda

Links & Downloads

1. urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35094
2. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/3509/

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English

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:3509
Date	January 2006
Creators	White, David L.
Publisher	Universität Potsdam, Philosophische Fakultät. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Source Sets	Potsdam University
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article
Format	application/pdf
Rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/de/