The Transmission of Anglo-Norman

Language history and language acquisition
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-0826-2
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 179 Seiten, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: Language Faculty and Beyond

This investigation contributes to issues in the study of second language transmission by considering the well-documented historical case of Anglo-Norman. Within a few generations of the establishment of this variety, its phonology diverged sharply from that of continental French, yet core syntactic distinctions continued to be reliably transmitted. The dissociation of phonology from syntax transmission is related to the age of exposure to the language in the experience of ordinary users of the language. The input provided to children acquiring language in a naturalistic communicative setting, even though one of a school institution, enabled them to acquire target-like syntactic properties of the inherited variety. In addition, it allowed change to take place along the lines of transmission by incrementation. A linguistic environment combining the ‘here-and-now’ aspects of ordinary first language acquisition with the growing cognitive complexity of an educational meta-language appears to have been adequate for this variety to be transmitted as a viable entity that encoded the public life of England for centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingham, Richard P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Introduction to key issues

2. Anglo-Norman and L2 varieties of medieval French

3. The context of transmission

4. Rationale and design of the study

5. Anglo-Norman phonology

6. The syntax of quantifiers in Anglo-Norman

7. Noun gender marking in Anglo-Norman

8. Verb second and null subjects in Anglo-Norman

9. The order of Attributive Adjective and Noun in Anglo-Norman

10. The syntax and pragmatics of discourse particles in Anglo-Norman

11. Conclusions

Bibliography

Subject index