External influences on English : D. Gary Miller.

By: Miller, D. GaryMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012Description: ix, 317 p. : illISBN: 9780199654260 (hardback); 0199654263Subject(s): English languageDDC classification: 420.9
Contents:
1. Introduction ; 2. Celtic, Roman, and Germanic Background ; 3. English: The Early Period ; 4. Early Loanwords From Greek and Latin ; 5. The Scandinavian Heritage of England ; 6. The French Input ; 7. Continuity and Revival of Classical Learning ; 8. External Linguistic Input to English ; Special Phonetic Symbols ; Primary Sources: Texts and Editions ; References
Summary: A history of the influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation. The author shows when and why the Anglo-Saxons began to borrow words from Latin and Greek and the effects of contact with the Vikings, Celts, and French
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1. Introduction ; 2. Celtic, Roman, and Germanic Background ; 3. English: The Early Period ; 4. Early Loanwords From Greek and Latin ; 5. The Scandinavian Heritage of England ; 6. The French Input ; 7. Continuity and Revival of Classical Learning ; 8. External Linguistic Input to English ; Special Phonetic Symbols ; Primary Sources: Texts and Editions ; References

A history of the influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation. The author shows when and why the Anglo-Saxons began to borrow words from Latin and Greek and the effects of contact with the Vikings, Celts, and French

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