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  • Record Number: 9497
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Trotter , D. A.
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  • Title: The Anglo-French Lexis of "Ancrene Wisse": A Re-evaluation [The author argues that the text of the "Ancrene Wisse" demonstrates at a very early period a high number of Anglo-French loan words as well as the combination of Anglo-French morphemes, e.g. turpelnesse (Anglo-French stem with Middle English verb ending). This familiarity shows the depth of language contact in England at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: A Companion to "Ancrene Wisse."  Edited by Yoko Wada.  D. S. Brewer, 2003.  Pages 83 - 101.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Ancrene Wisse, Middle English Devotional Work Anglo- Norman Language Linguistics Vocabulary
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 13
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  • Related Resources: In "The Anglo-French Lexis of Ancrene Wisse: A Re-evaluation," D.A. Trotter focuses on code-switching, loan-words, and hybrid word forms in the text. Trotter fairly unsurprisingly posits that the author (if not the entire scribal class to which Trotter as
  • Author's Affiliation: University of Wales
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  • Year of Publication: 2003.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0859917622