Homonymy and syntactic contamination: Old Norse-Icelandic and Old Swedish at

Mathys, Audrey
(2025) Homonymie, Polysemie und Etymologie in den indogermanischen Sprachen Homonymie, polysémie et étymologie dans les langues indo-eu — ISBN: [9-783-89754-673-8], p. 203-278, published

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The paper studies the evolution of the uses of at in Old Norse-Icelandic and in Old Swedish. It provides a description of its different functions (preposition, adverb, infinitive particle, and conjunction) and discusses their origins as well as the consequences of this extreme polyfunctionality: contamination between uses in Icelandic, and phonetic differentiation and avoidance in Swedish.
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Mathys, A. (2025). Homonymy and syntactic contamination: Old Norse-Icelandic and Old Swedish at. In Eric Dieu, Daniel Kölligan (ed.), Homonymie, Polysemie und Etymologie in den indogermanischen Sprachen Homonymie, polysémie et étymologie dans les langues indo-eu (p. p. 203-278). Röll. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/247800