On multilingualism and language-mixing in medieval Britain: Oceano vox: You never know where a ship comes from

Trotter, David

doi:10.1075/hsm.2.02tro

In:Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Gisella Ferraresi
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism 2] 2003
► pp. 15–33

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Oceano vox: You never know where a ship comes from

On multilingualism and language-mixing in medieval Britain

David Trotter | University of Wales Aberystwyth

Published online: 11 December 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/hsm.2.02tro

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