Loan verb accommodation
A comparison of Old Norse and French in Middle English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21695270 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W JULIANE ELTER (0000-0001-9476-333X, Technische Hochschule Mannheim), Marlieke Shaw (0000-0001-5540-4879, E Ink (South Korea)) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-58 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Language and Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6743 • E-ISSN: 1469-4379 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1360674324000029 |
| OpenAlex | W4402526710 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Recent research shows that, even under direct insertion, loan verbs are subject to constraints: for instance, they enter non-finite categories more readily than finite categories. To deepen our understanding of such loan word accommodation biases we investigate two contact situations to test whether biases hold in contact between closely related languages. A corpus study on Norse and French loan verbs entering Middle English compares the proportions of their finite and non-finite usage to gauge the impact of etymology and temporal distance to direct contact on loan integration. We identify significant bias towards non-finite use for both etymologies, but it is stronger for French than for Norse loan verbs. This suggests that biases are stronger in some contexts than in others: they are more prominent at a smaller temporal distance to direct contact and in contact between languages that are less closely related
Accommodation · Business · Linguistics · Loan · Middle English · Modal verb · Old Norse · Verb · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |