Language Contact In The History Of English


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Language Contact In The History Of English


Language Contact In The History Of English
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Author : Dieter Kastovsky
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 2001

Language Contact In The History Of English written by Dieter Kastovsky and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Foreign Language Study categories.


More than any other European language English has been shaped by its contacts with other languages such as Celtic, Latin, Scandinavian and French. This is true not only of the vocabulary, but also of morphology and even phonology and syntax. But also the contact between different varieties of English played an important role, especially in the shaping of the Englishes outside England. The papers contained in this volume deal with such contacts from various points of view. Major topics are: the restructuring of lexical fields by borrowing processes in Old, Middle and Early Modern English, the influence of Scandinavian on the morphology, the influence of Latin on English syntax, the development of Middle English verse meter under Italian influence, the origin of spelling conventions, the role of code-switching and language mixing for the development of the language, and the role of language contact in general in Central Europe.



English As A Contact Language


English As A Contact Language
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Author : Daniel Schreier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-17

English As A Contact Language written by Daniel Schreier and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics and language acquisition. With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives as well as an up-to-date overview of the respective fields.



Language Contact And The History Of English


Language Contact And The History Of English
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Author : Gabriella Mazzon
language : en
Publisher: Austrian Studies in English
Release Date : 2022

Language Contact And The History Of English written by Gabriella Mazzon and has been published by Austrian Studies in English this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with English language categories.


The focus is on the history of contacts between English and other languages and on their effects, and especially on lexical innovation and its effects on the English vocabulary. The volume is a contribution to studies on the history of English, with special attention to language contact as cultural contact, particularly in specific text types.



English Historical Linguistics


English Historical Linguistics
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Author : Bettelou Los
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2022-02-15

English Historical Linguistics written by Bettelou Los and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora, dialectological methods, and the study of translated texts. It also breaks new ground by applying relevant insights from other fields, among them postcolonial linguistics and anthropology. This pluralistic approach brings new and under-studied issues within the scope of explanation, and challenges some long-held assumptions about the nature of historical change in English. The volume will be of interest to an audience interested in the history of English, and the impact of its contact with Viking Age Norse, Old French, and Latin.



Contact


Contact
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Author : Robert McColl Millar
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-28

Contact written by Robert McColl Millar and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into contact with each other has largely been neglected. Here Robert McColl Millar sets out to redress this imbalance, giving the reader the opportunity to analyse and consider a variety of different contact scenarios where the language varieties involved are close relatives and to explore the question: are the results of contacts of this type different by their nature from where linguistically distant (or entirely different) varieties come into contact? Bringing together the diverse theoretical positions associated with the production of new dialects as well as those associated with contact between closely related but discrete language varieties, the volume invites the reader to evaluate different scholarly views using analysis from a range of different case-studies, largely derived from the history and diversity of English. It then goes on to demonstrate the similarities in process and end result between contact involving discrete but closely related languages and between dialects of the same language, and in doing so offers a new and insightful approach to issues of language contact.



Studies In The History Of The English Language Viii


Studies In The History Of The English Language Viii
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Author : Peter Grund
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-11-09

Studies In The History Of The English Language Viii written by Peter Grund and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-09 with Foreign Language Study categories.


This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of boundaries is variously defined within linguistics depending on the theoretical framework, from formal and theoretical perspectives to specific fields and more empirical, physical, and perceptual angles. The contributions to this volume do not take one particular theoretical or methodological approach but, instead, explore how examining various types of boundaries—linguistic, conceptual, analytical, generic, physical—helps us illuminate and account for historical use, variation, and change in English. In their exploration of various topics in the history of English, contributions ask a range of questions: what does it mean to set up boundaries between time periods? When do language varieties have distinct boundaries and when do they overlap? Where do language users draw up clausal, constructional, semantic, phonetic/phonological boundaries? Thus, the chapters explore not only how boundaries illustrate synchronic and diachronic features in the history of the English language but also what we can discover by questioning perceived or actual boundaries.



Contact Variation And Change In The History Of English


Contact Variation And Change In The History Of English
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Author : Simone E. Pfenninger
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2014-09-11

Contact Variation And Change In The History Of English written by Simone E. Pfenninger and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such as methods for quantifying the linguistic variation (that is a prerequisite for language change) or new corpus-based methods for investigating text-type variation, the contributors are able to trace linguistic change in different periods and contact situations, demonstrate how variation occurs, and in how far language change results out of this variation. Thus, the chapters go beyond core issues of language variation and change, focusing on the boundary between word and grammar, discourse and ideology in the history of the English language.



A History Of American English


A History Of American English
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Author : J. L. Dillard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-25

A History Of American English written by J. L. Dillard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present day.



Language Contact And Variation In The History Of English


Language Contact And Variation In The History Of English
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Author : 内田充美
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11

Language Contact And Variation In The History Of English written by 内田充美 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11 with categories.


コーパスにより、現代英語に関係する歴史的変異を解明する論文集。18世紀から中英語までの形態、統語、語用論、文体の問題に迫る。



The Influence Of Language Contact On The English Personal Pronouns


The Influence Of Language Contact On The English Personal Pronouns
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Author : Gesa Giesing
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2004-08-30

The Influence Of Language Contact On The English Personal Pronouns written by Gesa Giesing and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-30 with Literary Collections categories.


Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: A+, University of Glasgow (Department of English Language), course: History of English I, language: English, abstract: When the banana was first introduced to the British Isles nobody knew what to call this new long, yellow object. The easiest way to make up for the want of a concise expression was to borrow the word from the languages spoken in the banana’s countries of origin, i.e. Spanish and Portuguese. In 1597 Hartwell remarked: ”Other fruits there are, termed Banana, which we verily think to be the Muses of Egypt and Soria.” (OED). Extra - linguistic circumstances had led to change, here addition, in a language’s lexical system. But the process of change is not always as straightforward as here. First of all, obviously not only the lexicon is subject to change, but likewise are the phonological, the semantic and other systems of a language. Secondly, also intra-linguistic modifications, however triggered, can result in further adjustments within other areas of the language. Thirdly, addition is certainly not the only possible change. Replacement, loss and shift are some other phenomena that might succeed both extra- and intra-linguistic developments. One could add that, for instance in the case of addition, it is not always clear whether the need for a new word or the new word, having been used synonymously with some other expression in the beginning, occurred first. But the main confusion definitely arises from the interdependence of all movements within language and beyond. Linguistic change is usually far more complex than was the case with the banana. But, as Smith (1996: 43) has pointed out, there are three main factors with the help of which linguistic change can be understood and described, namely contact , variation and systemic regulation. So contact between different varieties or languages may add elements that are not necessary, i.e. two or more elements are used in variation until the system adjusts itself in order to improve its efficiency. I am not going to discuss in detail these three mechanisms underlying most processes of change and the various ways they might be interwoven. Rather, this paper will investigate how personal pronouns as an example were affected by them in the ME period, an instance where change was all but straightforward. The focus will be on language contact. An attempt will be made to give answers to the following questions: * How do the developments of the second and the third person pronoun respectively differ from the ‘normal’ change of words from OE to PDE? * Which role does the contact with France and Scandinavia play?