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The adaptation of /h/ in Old French loanwords
Abstract
Contact between Old French and three /h/-bearing varieties of Germanic (i.e. Frankish, Old East Scandinavian, Middle Dutch) transpired in present-day Normandy and Belgium from the early 8th to the late 14th century. During this period, an influx of Germanic loanwords entered Old French, restoring phonemic /h/. In this study, we assemble an exhaustive dataset of Old East Scandinavian and Middle Dutch loans containing /h/, track the different adaptation strategies into Old French and examine them in terms of current models of loanword phonology.
Abstract
Contact between Old French and three /h/-bearing varieties of Germanic (i.e. Frankish, Old East Scandinavian, Middle Dutch) transpired in present-day Normandy and Belgium from the early 8th to the late 14th century. During this period, an influx of Germanic loanwords entered Old French, restoring phonemic /h/. In this study, we assemble an exhaustive dataset of Old East Scandinavian and Middle Dutch loans containing /h/, track the different adaptation strategies into Old French and examine them in terms of current models of loanword phonology.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
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Experimental approaches
- The acquisition of clitics in L2 Spanish 3
- Acquiring VP-ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese 17
- Code switching in the determiner phrase 29
- How many “grammars” per “language”? 43
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Phonology
- Nasal vowels are not [+NASAL] oral vowels 63
- Labialization and palatalization in Judeo-Spanish phonology 77
- Revisiting /ʁ/-assimilation through schwa 99
- Harmonic serialism and syncope and stress shift in Latin 119
- The adaptation of /h/ in Old French loanwords 133
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Diachronic syntax
- On the Old French subjunctive 147
- On the emergence of two classes of clitic clusters in Italo-Romance 171
- The structure of complementizerless clauses in Classical Portuguese 185
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Syntax
- Bare PPs and the syntax-semantics interface 201
- On the structure of bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese 215
- Gender features on n & the root 229
- Adjectivization of participles in Romance 245
- On the edge 261
- A case of multiple agree 275
- Measure phrases within the nominal domain in Spanish 289
- Index of subjects and terms 303
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
-
Experimental approaches
- The acquisition of clitics in L2 Spanish 3
- Acquiring VP-ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese 17
- Code switching in the determiner phrase 29
- How many “grammars” per “language”? 43
-
Phonology
- Nasal vowels are not [+NASAL] oral vowels 63
- Labialization and palatalization in Judeo-Spanish phonology 77
- Revisiting /ʁ/-assimilation through schwa 99
- Harmonic serialism and syncope and stress shift in Latin 119
- The adaptation of /h/ in Old French loanwords 133
-
Diachronic syntax
- On the Old French subjunctive 147
- On the emergence of two classes of clitic clusters in Italo-Romance 171
- The structure of complementizerless clauses in Classical Portuguese 185
-
Syntax
- Bare PPs and the syntax-semantics interface 201
- On the structure of bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese 215
- Gender features on n & the root 229
- Adjectivization of participles in Romance 245
- On the edge 261
- A case of multiple agree 275
- Measure phrases within the nominal domain in Spanish 289
- Index of subjects and terms 303
