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**Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English**

"_This thesis examines the way in which Germanic dialects, which were brought to Britain by settlers in the post-Roman period and which ultimately evolved into Old English, came to predominate in the southern and eastern parts of the island over a stretch of roughly two centuries spanning the fifth to the seventh._"

Mitrovic, D. (2025). <i>Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English</i> [University of Chicago]. doi.org/10.6082/UCHICAGO.15187.

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