@ARTICLE{Molencki_Rafał_On_2017, author={Molencki, Rafał}, volume={vol. 38}, journal={LINGUISTICA SILESIANA}, pages={137-144}, howpublished={online}, year={2017}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach}, abstract={The article discusses the late Middle English replacement of the ordinal number other by the Romance loanword second. The major cause of the change was the ambiguity and polyfunctionality of the older native word. The study is based on the language material from the Dictionary of Old English Corpus, the Middle English Compendium and the Anglo-Norman Dictionary}, type={Article}, title={On the rise of the ordinal number second in Middle English}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/101750/PDF/LS%2038_10%20Molencki.pdf}, doi={10.24425/linsi.2017.117047}, }