External Influences on English
From its Beginnings to the Renaissance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 August 2012
- ISBN 9780199654260
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 244x166x25 mm
- Weight 690 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this fascinating 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. A book of enduring value to everyone interested in the history of English.
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This book provides the fullest account ever published of the external influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation. In doing so it makes profound contributions to the history of English and of western culture more generally.
English is a Germanic language but altogether different from the other languages of that family. Professor Miller shows how and why the Anglo-Saxons began to borrow and adapt words from Latin and Greek. He provides detailed case studies of the processes by which several hundred of them entered English. He also considers why several centuries later the process of importation was renewed and accelerated. He describes the effects of English contacts with the Celts, Vikings, and French, and the ways in which these altered the language's morphological and syntactic structure. He shows how loanwords from French, for example, not only increased the richness of English derivation but resulted in a complex competition between native and borrowed suffixes.
Gary Miller combines historical, cultural, and linguistic perspectives. His scholarly, readable, and always fascinating account will be of enduring value to everyone interested in the history of English.
a refreshing exception among works on the history of English ... Millerâs book is a welcome addition to general accounts of the history and development of English.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Celtic, Roman, and Germanic Background
English: The Early Period
Early Loanwords From Greek and Latin
The Scandinavian Heritage of England
The French Input
Continuity and Revival of Classical Learning
External Linguistic Input to English
Special Phonetic Symbols
Primary Sources: Texts and Editions
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