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Publication details [#66904]

Crisma, Paola and Susan Pintzuk. 2019. The noun phrase and the ‘Viking Hypothesis’. Language Variation and Change 31 (2) : 219–246.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evaluation | historical linguistics | noun phrase | syntax1

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper employs the syntax of the noun phrase to assess two competing hypotheses: the traditional account, that Middle English is a West Germanic language with Old English as its immediate ancestor, and Emonds and Faarlund's (2014) proposal, that Middle English is a North Germanic language, the direct descendant of Old Norse.