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1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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North-Western European language evolution ; Supplement ; vol. 19
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North-Western European language evolution ; Supplement ; v. 19.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index. |
| Contents |
Quest for a Title -- 'Fascination is our Theme' -- 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 -- Continental Backgrounds of English -- Emergence of Comparative and Historical Linguistics -- Tower of Babel -- Bopp, Rask and Grimm -- Indo-European and Indo-Germanic -- Indo-European and Beyond -- Indo-European language family -- Indian -- Iranian -- Armenian -- Hittite -- Phrygian -- Greek -- Thracian -- Illyrian -- Albanian -- Venetic -- Italic -- Celtic -- Germanic -- Baltic -- Slavic -- Tocharian -- Affinities of Indo-European with other language families: Nostratic -- Indo-European homeland -- Diversification of Indo-European and the position of Germanic -- Tree diagram and wave theory -- 'Old European' river names -- Germanic homeland -- Old Germanic Languages -- Earliest attestation -- Germanic diagnostic features -- Early Germanic dialect geography -- Early emigrant languages -- Early dialect grouping: three models -- Dialectal position of the early runic language. |
| Summary |
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 embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. The present volume spans the period up to A.D. 1154, the year inaugurating the Plantagenet era in England and the year of the last events to be recorded in the annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. |
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| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Foreign elements.
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English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Foreign elements.
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English language -- Middle English -- Foreign elements. |
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English language -- Middle English. |
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Indo-European languages -- Influence on English.
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Indo-European languages -- Influence on English. |
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Scandinavian languages -- Influence on English.
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Scandinavian languages -- Influence on English. |
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England -- Civilization -- European influences.
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England. |
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Civilization. |
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Germanic languages -- Influence on English.
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Germanic languages -- Influence on English. |
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French language -- Influence on English.
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French language -- Influence on English. |
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Latin language -- Influence on English.
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Latin language -- Influence on English. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nielsen, Hans Frede, 1943- Continental backgrounds of English and its insular development until 1154. Odense, [Denmark] : Odense University Press ; Portland, OR : International Specialized Book Services, 1998 8778384206 (DLC) 99218095 (OCoLC)40737856 |
| ISBN |
9789027272775 (electronic book) |
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9027272778 (electronic book) |
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8778384206 |
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9788778384201 |
