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Latin and British in Roman and Post‐Roman Britain: methodology and morphology
Author(s) -
Russell Paul
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-968x.2011.01251.x
Subject(s) - celtic languages , history , linguistics , language contact , morphology (biology) , classics , ancient history , philosophy , geology , paleontology
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.