2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Medieval manuscripts as source evidence for the language situation in England
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18520251
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
ヨーロッパ語系文学
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
WADA Yoko Kansai University, 外国語学部, 教授 (00123547)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | 英米文学 |
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| Research Abstract |
In England French (Anglo-Norman) became a language of the upper class after the Norman Conquest in 1066. English, however, gradually began to gain power and the middle of the thirteenth century saw many trilingual miscellanies in English, French and Latin. Studies on these manuscripts, written from the middle of the thirteenth century to the first half of the fourteenth century, have clearly shown how French came to surpass Latin and then in turn began to besuperseded by English.
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