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Zusatztext an indispensable addition to the library shelves. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book shows how, when, and why English took words from other languages and explains how to find their origins and reasons for adoption. It covers the effects of contact with languages ranging from Latin and French to Yiddish, Chinese, and Maori, from Saxon times to the present. It will appeal to everyone interested in the history of English. Zusammenfassung This book shows how, when, and why English took words from other languages and explains how to find their origins and reasons for adoption. It covers the effects of contact with languages ranging from Latin and French to Yiddish, Chinese, and Maori, from Saxon times to the present. It will appeal to everyone interested in the history of English. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
