2011/07/01 by Paul Russell · 50 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ancient history #Celtic languages #Classics #Geology #History #Language contact #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Linguistics and language evolution #Medieval Literature and History #Morphology (biology) #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1467-968x.2011.01251.x
published in Transactions of the Philological Society 109(2), 138-157 (Wiley)
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Abstract Contact between Latin and British, the Brittonic Celtic language, in Roman and post‐Roman Britain has received considerable attention in the last few years as part of a more general discussion of linguistic contact phenomena in early Britain. Much of the discussion has focused on phonological aspects, although morphological features have sometimes been invoked without discussion. The aim of this paper is to consider some of the morphological features which have been claimed to reflect Latin influence on Brittonic Celtic languages, such as loss of a case system, loss of the neuter gender, the development of compound prepositions, and the acquisition of a pluperfect tense.