Phonological Indicators of a Norse Source for Middle English
摘要
The main thrust of this book’s argumentation is syntactic; that is, Early Middle English arose, not through a vast number of unrelated and accidental changes in Old English grammar, but as a seamless continuation of (a lexically Anglicized) Norse syntax. This view is corroborated by some phonological characteristics of both Norse and Middle English which differ from those of Old English.