Hough, C. (2022) Old Northumbrian in the Scottish Borders: evidence from place-names. In: Los, B., Cummins, C., Gotthard, L., Honkapohja, A. and Molineaux, B. (eds.) English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in Contact. John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, pp. 75-95. ISBN 9789027210654 (doi: 10.1075/cilt.359.05hou)
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Abstract
Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland: Evidence from place-names (REELS) is a research project funded for three years by The Leverhulme Trust at the University of Glasgow: http://berwickshire-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/. The project team is using a place-name survey of the historical county of Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders, the heartland of Anglo-Saxon settlement in Scotland from the seventh to eleventh centuries, to investigate the Northumbrian dialect of Old English and its development into Older Scots. The place-name data are being analysed for evidence of the lexis, semantics, morphology and phonology of Old Northumbrian, a language variety poorly attested in other (written and epigraphic) sources. This chapter presents some discoveries from the ongoing project, alongside a discussion of the strengths and limitations of place-name evidence in this context.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Hough, Professor Carole |
| Authors: | Hough, C. |
| College/School: | College of Arts > School of Critical Studies > English Language and Linguistics |
| Journal Name: | English Historical Linguistics |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| ISSN: | 0304-0763 |
| ISBN: | 9789027210654 |
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