The continental backgrounds of English and its insular development until 1154 /

In conjunction with two other volumes, which are scheduled to appear later, The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154 aims at giving a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nielsen, Hans Frede, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Odense [Denmark] : Portland, OR : Odense University Press ; International Specialized Book Services, 1998.
Colección:North-Western European language evolution ; Supplement ; v. 19.
Temas:
450-1100
English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Foreign elements.
English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Foreign elements.
Indo-European languages > Influence on English.
Scandinavian languages > Influence on English.
Germanic languages > Influence on English.
French language > Influence on English.
Latin language > Influence on English.
Anglais (Langue) > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Emprunts.
Anglais (Langue) > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Emprunts.
Français (Langue) > Influence sur l'anglais.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Old & Middle English.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Civilization > European influences.
English language > Middle English > Foreign elements.
Engels.
England > Civilization > European influences.
England.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Quest for a Title
  • 'Fascination is our Theme'
  • The Importance of English Language History: A Practical Demonstration
  • Studying English Language History
  • Cultural history
  • Access to early literature
  • Marginal and competing forms
  • Linguistic affinities
  • 'Fascination is our theme'. An appetizer
  • Foreign Borrowings and Other New Words
  • Loan words
  • Other lexical innovations
  • Inherited Material
  • Words of Germanic origin
  • Morphological extension
  • Some Factors Involved in Language Change
  • Heritage and contact
  • Principle of least effort
  • Linguistic variation
  • Coining new words
  • The Continental Backgrounds of English
  • The Emergence of Comparative and Historical Linguistics
  • The Tower of Babel
  • Bopp, Rask and Grimm
  • Indo-European and Indo-Germanic
  • Indo-European and Beyond
  • The Indo-European language family
  • Indian
  • Iranian
  • Armenian
  • Hittite
  • Phrygian
  • Greek
  • Thracian
  • Illyrian
  • Albanian
  • Venetic
  • Italic
  • Celtic
  • Germanic
  • Baltic
  • Slavic
  • Tocharian
  • The affinities of Indo-European with other language families: Nostratic
  • The Indo-European homeland
  • The diversification of Indo-European and the position of Germanic
  • Tree diagram and wave theory
  • 'Old European' river names
  • The Germanic homeland
  • The Old Germanic Languages
  • Earliest attestation
  • Germanic diagnostic features
  • Early Germanic dialect geography
  • Early emigrant languages
  • Early dialect grouping: three models
  • The dialectal position of the early runic language.

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