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Auteur(s) : Durkin, Philip
Titre(s) : Borrowed words [Texte imprimé] : a history of loanwords in English / Philip Durkin
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014©2014
Description matérielle : xix, 491 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Comprend : Introducing concepts ; Introducing the data ; Historical and cultural background
to c.1150 ; Very early borrowings into Germanic ; Old English in contact with Celtic
; An overview of Latin loanwords in Old English ; Interrogating the data from chapter
6 ; Methodologies : sound change; word geography; loanwords versus semantic borrowing
; Introduction to Scandinavian loanwords in English ; Identifying Scandinavian borrowings
and assessing their impact ; Exploring the contact situation and identifying loans
; Quantifying French and Latin contributions to Middle English ; Example passages
from English and multilingual texts ; Borrowing from Latin and French after 1500
; Loanwords from other languages : test cases ; Long-term effects of loanwords on
the shape of the English Lexicon ; General conclusions and pointers for futher investigation.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 429-454
"The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has
taken from other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, French,
Italian, Spanish, and Russian to, among others, Hebrew, Maori, Malay, Chinese, Hindi,
Japanese, and Yiddish. Philip Durkin's full and accessible history reveals how, when,
and why. He shows how to discover the origins of loanwords, when and why they were
adopted, and what happens to them once they have been."--Publishers website
Sujet(s) : Anglais (langue) -- Lexicologie historique
Anglais (langue) -- Emprunts (linguistique)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199574995. - ISBN 0199574995
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb437687006
Notice n° :
FRBNF43768700
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