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Author Jones, Mari C

Title Variation and Change in Mainland and Insular Norman : a study of superstrate influence / by Mari C. Jones
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages .)
Series Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; 7
Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; 7.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Historical Context -- 3. The Linguistic Context -- 4. The Sociolinguistic Context -- 5. Phonetics and Phonology -- 6. Liaison -- 7. Morphosyntax -- 8. Lexis -- 9. The Influence of Norman on Its Superstrate Languages -- 10. Concluding Remarks
Summary King John of England"s defeat by the French in 1204 led to the territorial fragmentation of the Duchy of Normandy. Henceforth, the Norman mainland, allied to France, and the Channel Islands, allied to England, would find themselves on different sides of an ever-widening linguistic gulf. In this book, Mari C. Jones examines the way in which contact between the Norman dialect and its two typologically different superstrates (French and English) provides optimal conditions to study the linguistic mechanisms of dialect contacts and language contacts. Through the analysis of extensive and original phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical data, set in their historical and sociolinguistic contexts, this fascinating study explores how advergence with its superstrates has led Norman to diverge linguistically within these territories
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject French language -- Variation
French language -- Dialects -- Channel Islands
Anglo-Norman dialect -- Variation
French language -- Dialects -- France -- Normandy
Anglo-Norman dialect -- Channel Islands
English language -- Channel Islands
Anglo-Norman dialect
English language
French language -- Dialects
French language -- Variation
Language and languages
SUBJECT Channel Islands -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2022006163
Normandy -- Languages
Subject France -- Normandy
Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies -- Channel Islands
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004257136
9789004257139