List of tables
Table 1.
Declension table for the third person singular personal pronoun (‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’, ‘they’), adapted from Quirk & Wrenn (1957: 38)
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Table 2.
Type-based relative proportion of the three major donor languages’ contributions to the vocabulary of Standard Modern English (based on Scheler 1977: 72)
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Table 3.
Proportions of Scandinavian ancestry in select population samples of the British Isles, based on NRY DNA mutations. (adapted from Bowden et al. 2008: 306)
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Table 4.
Database comprising the earliest and latest reliably dated Chronicle material from inside and outside the Danelaw
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Table 5.
Declension table for the distal demonstrative pronoun (‘that’, ‘the’, ‘those’), adapted from Campbell (1959: 290)
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Table 6.
Noun-phrases extracted from Example (20)
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Table 7.
Lexical and referential class nouns
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Table 8.
Foil for data classification according to type of gender assignment and location of gender exponence in each data cohort
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Table 9.
Originally lexically gendered nouns in the late northern Chronicle sample showing innovative congruence of sex and gender
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Table 10.
Originally referentially gendered nouns in the late northern Chronicle sample showing novel incongruence of sex and gender
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Table 11.
Predictive accuracy of the baseline model for NP-internal lexical agreement
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Table 12.
Predictive accuracy of the baseline model for NP-internal referential agreement
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Table 13.
Variables entered into the saturated models for referential- and lexical-class NP-internal agreement
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Table 14.
Minimal adequate model for NP-internal agreement of originally lexically gendered nouns
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Table 15.
Predictive accuracy of the baseline model for NP-internal lexical agreement
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Table 16.
Predictive accuracy of the minimal adequate model for NP-internal lexical agreement
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Table 17.
Minimal adequate model for NP-internal agreement of originally referentially gendered nouns
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Table 18.
Predictive accuracy of the baseline model for NP-internal referential agreement
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Table 19.
Predictive accuracy of the minimal adequate model for NP-internal referential agreement
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