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- Title
Latin and British in Roman and Post-Roman Britain: methodology and morphology.
- Authors
Russell, Paul
- 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.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; LATIN peoples; LATIN language; BRYTHONIC languages; MORPHOLOGY (Grammar); ROMAN Period, Great Britain, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.
- Publication
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2011, Vol 109, Issue 2, p138
- ISSN
0079-1636
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-968X.2011.01251.x