The Genesis of Analytic Structure in English: The Case for a Brittonic substratum

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8 mars 2018

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Presses universitaires François-Rabelais

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grammaire linguistique langue anglaise vieil anglais LAN009000 Linguistics CF

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celte celtique langue celtique

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Gary German, « The Genesis of Analytic Structure in English: The Case for a Brittonic substratum », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.7276

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Numerous scholars have been struck by certain morphosyntactic features shared by English and Celtic which do not necessarily characterise other Germanic languages. Nevertheless, the idea of a possible "Celtic" (i.e. Brittomc substratum in English has been generally brushed aside for both historical and linguistic reasons or simply explained away as typological universals. Furthermore, until recently, 19th century historical views of the "Anglo-Saxon conquest", on which this conclusion is base...

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