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9780198736493

Borrowed Words A History of Loanwords in English

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    9780198736493

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    0198736495

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2015-06-02
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Philip Durkin, Deputy Chief Editor of the OED, Oxford University Press

Philip Durkin is Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and has led the dictionary's team of specialists in etymology for the past fifteen years. His Oxford Guide to Etymology (2009; paperback 2011) has quickly become the standard work in the field.

Table of Contents


Part I: Introduction
1. Introducing concepts
2. Introducing the data
Part II: Early Contacts in Continental Europe and Britain
3. Historical and cultural background to c. 1150
4. Very early borrowings into Germanic
5. Old English in contact with Celtic
Part III: Old English and Proto-Old English in Contact with latin
Introduction to Part III
6. An overview of Latin loanwords in Old English
7. Interrogating the data from Chapter 6
8. Methodologies: sound change; word geography; loanwords versus semantic borrowing
Conclusions to Part III
Part IV: Scandinavian Influence
Introduction to Part IV
9. Introduction to Scandinavian loanwords in English
10. Identifying Scandinavian borrowings, and assessing their Impact
Conclusions to Part IV
Part V: Borrowing from French and Latin in Middle English
Introduction to Part V
11. Exploring the contact situation and identifying loans
12. Quantifying French and Latin contributions to Middle English
13. Example passages from English and multilingual texts
Conclusions to Part V
Part VI: Loanwords into English after 1500; how Borrowing has Affected the Lexicon
Introduction to Part VI
14. Borrowing from Latin and French after 1500
15. Loanwords from other languages: test cases
16. Long-term effects of loanwords on the shape of the English lexicon
17. General conclusions and pointers for further investigation
References
Index

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