>He was proposing that without the Normans, English would have drawn on the German lexicon.
That's not what's going on here, he's limiting the vocabulary to existing English words which derive from Old English and inventing some new words using existing morphemes of Old English origin.
(if you're going to look outside English btw the nearest neighbor languages are Frisian and more distantly Dutch)
That's not what's going on here, he's limiting the vocabulary to existing English words which derive from Old English and inventing some new words using existing morphemes of Old English origin.
(if you're going to look outside English btw the nearest neighbor languages are Frisian and more distantly Dutch)