On the areal pattern of ‘brittonicity’ in English and its implications
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Universität Potsdam
2006
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| Online Access: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35094 http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/3509/ |
| Summary: | 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 |
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