Published 2014
Table of Contents:
“…Introducing concepts -- Introducing the data -- Historical and cultural background to c.1150 -- Very early borrowings into Germanic -- Old English in contact with Celtic -- An overview of Latin
loanwords in Old English -- Interrogating the data from chapter 6 -- Methodologies : sound change; word geography;
loanwords versus semantic borrowing -- Introduction to Scandinavian
loanwords in English -- Identifying Scandinavian borrowings and assessing their impact -- Exploring the contact situation and identifying loans -- Quantifying French and Latin contributions to Middle English -- Example passages from English and multilingual texts -- Borrowing from Latin and French after 1500 --
Loanwords from other languages : test cases -- Long-term effects of
loanwords on the shape of the English Lexicon -- General conclusions and pointers for futher investigation.…”
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