Regional Variation in Jespersen’s Cycle in Early Middle English
In this paper we investigate the place of origin of the change from Jespersen’s Cycle stage II – bipartite ne + not – to stage III, not alone. We use the LAEME corpus to investigate the dialectal distribution in more detail, finding that the change must have begun in Northern and Eastern England. A...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017-12-01
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| Series: | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2017-0007 |