Variation and Change in Mainland and Insular Norman

A Study of Superstrate Influence
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-25712-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

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 Variation and Change in Mainland and Insular Norman, 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 contact’ and ‘language contact’. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Mari

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Mari C. Jones is Reader in French Linguistics and Language Change at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages at Peterhouse, Cambridge. She has published monographs and many articles on the Norman dialect, including Jersey Norman French (2001) and The Guernsey Norman French Translations of Thomas Martin (2008).