WEEK 4

• Discussion of the previous week's assignment: Lutz (2009).
  

• Introduction to the 'Celtic Hypothesis': the 'traditional' representation of the fate of the Celtic population after the arrival of the Germanic settlers (Bede's version is available here) and alternative scenarios.
  

• The notions of substratum and superstratum and different situations of language contact.

• The morphosyntactic features of English that may be due to contact with the Celts. The slides presented in class are available here.
  

ASSIGNMENT:

Read the paper downloadable here, limited to pages 5-14, 22-26, 29(bottom half)-30.
Single out the passages that present:
1) known facts that represent common knowledge;
2) the author's proposal;
3) known or novel facts that support the author's proposal.