Language Contact in the History of English (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631362439 ISBN 13: 9783631362433

Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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The Contributors: Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger, David Burnley, Andrei Danchev ( ), Merja Kyto, Hans-Jurgen Diller, Richard Dury, Andreas Fischer, Udo Fries, Raymond Hickey, Thomas Kohnen, Lucia Kornexl, Manfred Markus, Gabriella Mazzon, Ruta Nagucka, Gabriele Rinelli, Nikolaus Ritt, Herbert Schendl, Robert P. Stockwell, Donka Minkova, Laura Charlotte Wright.
The Editors: Dieter Kastovsky, born 1940, studied English, Romance, German philology and general linguistics in Tubingen, Berlin, Besancon; Ph.D. 1967 in Tubingen; 1967-1973 Research Assistant in Tubingen (English Department); 1973-1981 Full Professor of English and General Linguistics in Wuppertal; since 1981 Full Professor of English Linguistics in Vienna (English Department); Visiting Professorships in Munster, Poznan, Stockholm, Tromso, Cape Town, Georgetown University.
Arthur Mettinger, born 1956, is professor of English linguistics at the University of Vienna. Studied English philology, Slavonic languages and sinology in Vienna, Beijing and Moscow. Major research areas include synchronic English semantics and word-formation, lexicology and lexicography, contrastive linguistics (English Chinese), and, most recently, cognitive semantics."

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• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 3631362439
• ISBN 13: 9783631362433
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 410
• Editor: Kastovsky Dieter, Mettinger Arthur