Introduction

Hogg, R.

doi:10.1017/chol9780521264747.002

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“…Historically, many pathways to impersonal pronouns involve the words related to ‘person’ (Kouteva et al., 2019, p. 240). French on comes from Latin homo ‘man’; English one comes from French impersonal on (Hogg, 1992); az ember in Hungarian means ‘the man.’…”

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Impersonal morphosyntax in generative grammar

Little

2024

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Section: Impersonal Pronounsmentioning

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Impersonal morphosyntax in generative grammar

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2024

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Agreement in language contact

Dolberg

2019

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Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the change from one to the other is anything but: more than 120 years of research into the matter provided no prevailing opinion – let alone a consensus – regarding how it proceeded or why it occurred. The present study is the first to address this issue in the context of language contact with Old Norse, assessing this contact influence in relation to both language-formal and semantico-cognitive factors. This empirical, functional account uses rigorous, innovative methodology, interdisciplinary evidence, and well-established models of synchronic variation in diachronic application to draw a fine-grained picture of the variation, change, and loss of gender from Old to Middle English and its underlying mainsprings. The resulting plausible and parsimonious explanations will prove relevant to students and scholars of historical linguistics, morpho-syntax, language variation and change, or language contact, to name but a few.

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Impersonal morphosyntax in generative grammar

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