TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,D.Gary
TI  - External influences on English
SN  - 9780199654260 (hardback)
U1  - 420.9 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English language
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -