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Publication details [#60418]

Blaxter, Tam. 2015. Gender and language change in Old Norse sentential negatives. Language Variation and Change 27 (3) : 349–375.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | historical linguistics | language change | negation | prose

Language as a subject

Norse, Old

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Inquiry on gender impact on the chosen adverb for sentential negation in Old Norse prose fiction, shows that women systematically lead in this change across time. It also evidences the potential of employing fiction data when exploring the influence of gender in historical language varieties.