Language contact in the history of English /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kastovsky, Dieter, 1940-, Mettinger, Arthur
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, 2003
Edition:2nd, rev. ed
Series:Studies in English medieval language and literature Bd. 1
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kastovsky, D. and Mettinger, A.
  • French and Frenches in fourteenth-century London / D. Burnley
  • The Middle English "for to + infinitive" construction: a twofold contact phenomenon? / A. Danchev and M. Kytö
  • Verbs of verbal communication in the English Renaissance: a lexical field under language contact / H. Diller
  • The history of the English language in the context of the history of European languages / R. Dury
  • Lexical borrowing and the history of English: a typology of typologies / A. Fischer
  • Foreign place names in the ZEN-Corpus / U. Fries
  • Language contact and typological difference: transfer between Irish and Irish English / R. Hickey
  • The influence of "Latinate" constructions in Early Modern English: orality and literacy as complementary forces / T. Kohene
  • "Unnatural words"? Loan formations in Old English glosses / L. Kornexl
  • Duplications of vowels in Middle English spelling / M. Markus
  • Language contact in the history of Englishes, or the genesis of extraterritorial varieties / G. Mazzon
  • Latin prepositional phrases and their Old English equivalents / R. Nagucka
  • Scandinavian and native social terms in Middle English: the case of cherl / carl / G. Rinelli
  • The spread of Scandinavian third person plural pronouns in English: optimization, adaptation and evolutionary stability / N. Ritt
  • Code-switching in medieval English poetry / H. Schendl
  • The partial-contact origins of English parameter verse: the Anglicization of an Italian model / R. P. Stockwell and D. Minkova
  • Models of language versus semicommunication in medieval Latin and Middle English accounts / L. C. Wright