The origins and development of the English language / by Algeo, John

Table of Contents: “…1. LANGUAGE AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: AN INTRODUCTION. …”

Sustaining linguistic diversity : endangered and minority languages and language varieties /

Table of Contents: “…Hornberger -- Endangering language vitality through institutional development / Tadhg O'hfearnain -- Scandinavian minority language policies in transition / Leena Huss -- Language development in Eritrea / Paul D. …”

Southern Folklore Quarterly /

Table of Contents: “…Arner -- Proverbs in Carl Sanburg's Poem "The People, Yes" / Wolfgang Mieder -- The River That Stopped Flowing Folklore and Biblical Tvpology in the Apocryphal Lives of Adam and Eve / Brian Murdich -- The Language of the Sea: Relationships Between the Language of Herman Melville and Sea Shanties of the 19th Century / Robert J. …”

Borrowed words : a history of loanwords in English / by Durkin, Philip

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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