TY - JOUR A1 - White, David L. T1 - On the areal pattern of ‘brittonicity’ in English and its implications T2 - The Celtic Englishes IV : the interface between English and the Celtic languages ; proceedings of the fourth international colloquium on the "Celtic Englishes" held at the University of Potsdam in Golm (Germany) from 22-26 September 2004 N2 - Content: 1. Introduction 2. Getting to the Seen from the Unseen 2.1. The Theory of the Zones 2.2. Brief Comments on Mechanism 3. The Areal Evidence: Shared Features and Their Dialectal Provenance 4. Explaining the Evidence Seen 4.1. Why It Is Not Due to Mere Misleading Coincidence 4.2. Why It Is Not Due to French Influence 4.3. Why It Is Not Due to Norse Influence 4.4. Why It Is Not Due to English Influence over Brittonic 4.5. Why It Is Due to Brittonic Influence 5. Conclusion 5.1. The Areal Pattern and Its Explanation 5.2. Substrate versus Superstrate 5.3. Some Final Arguments, and Good Questions 6. Addenda Y1 - 2010 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3924 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35094 SP - 306 EP - 335 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -