Grammar on the move: an introduction to syntactic borrowing
Linguistics HQ by Dr Rebecca Mitchell
Episode notes
Do you know your Balkans from your Baltic? Does that preposition have a passport? And how did the Normans get their own back on us for borrowing so many of their words? Tune into this episode on syntactic borrowing to find out about structural borrowing and convergence!
Keywords
linguisticscommunicationsyntaxgrammarEnglishhistorical linguisticsvariationborrowing