Florian Dolberg

List of John Benjamins publications in which Florian Dolberg is involved.

Title

Agreement in Language Contact: Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Florian Dolberg

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… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 208] 2019. xxi, 351 pp.

Article

Dolberg, Florian 2012 Gender change from Old to Middle English English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010, Hegedűs, Irén and Alexandra Fodor (eds.), pp. 263–288 | Article

Gender-assignment and -exponence changed dramatically from Old to Middle English.1 This paper provides insights on the mechanisms and chronology of this change by quantitatively analysing the annals 1129–1154 of the Peterborough Chronicle. A logistic regression reveals substantial effects of … read more