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Twentieth Century Borrowings from French to English

Author : Julia Landmann
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443845833
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Borrowings from French to English written by Julia Landmann and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French has long been the donor language par excellence in the history of English. French has contributed to the English vocabulary in the form of new words since before the Norman Conquest. The French influence on the English lexicon represents the focus of linguistic concern in a considerable number of investigations of the language and its development. Yet French borrowings which have recently been adopted into English have as yet figured little if at all in such studies. The present study sets out to shed light on the French impact on English in the recent past. The results presented in this book are based on a corpus of 1677 twentieth-century French borrowings collected from the Oxford English Dictionary Online. On the basis of their meanings, the words under consideration have been assigned to different subject fields in order to give a tour d’horizon of the manifold areas and spheres of life enriched by French in recent times. The first part of the present investigation concentrates on the phonological and orthographical reception of the various borrowings. The focus of this study is on the semantic development of the French borrowings in comparison to their sources in the donor language. Emphasis has been placed upon analysing whether a particular meaning a borrowing assumes after its first attested use is taken over from French, or whether it represents an independent semantic change within English.

French Loan Words in the English Language

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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656552495
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book French Loan Words in the English Language written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Englisches Seminar), course: English Lexicology: Words and their Meaning, language: English, abstract: The dates for the beginning and end of the Middle English period are rather controversial. But many linguists do agree that by 1100 certain changes to the English language were sufficiently well established to justify the use of the adjective middle to designate the language in what was actually a phase of transition from the English of the early Middle Ages – Old English – to that of the first printed books at the end of the 15th century. During this period many changes occurred that may be noted in nearly every aspect of the language: in its phonology, its semantics and in its lexicon, where many Old English words were replaced by borrowed items from the French language. But although the French influence did not cease with the end of the 15th century, due to its size of merely seven pages this term paper will concentrate on the Middle English period. Starting with a short introduction to the historical background of the French Influence on the English language, there will be examples of the borrowed vocabulary, explanations why they were borrowed and how they can be further distinguished into loan words from Norman and Central French. Moreover, there will be an analysis of how the process of borrowing led to the highly distinctive vocabulary of the English language regarding register and style. The structure of this term paper is chronological as it seemed to be the most appropriate regarding the historical nature of this paper’s topic.

Borrowed Words

Author : Philip Durkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199574995
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Words written by Philip Durkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (Volume 4)

Author : John G. Newman
Publisher : Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (Volume 4) by : John G. Newman

Download or read book Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (Volume 4) written by John G. Newman and published by Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Token focuses on English linguistics in a broad sense, taking in both diachronic and synchronic work, grammatical as well as lexical studies. That being said, the journal favors empirical research. All submissions are double-blind peer reviewed. Token is the original medium of publication for all articles that the journal prints.

Late Modern English

Author : Merja Kytö
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261431
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Late Modern English written by Merja Kytö and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and pragmatics; this makes the collection attractive to any scholar or student interested in the history of English. Each of the four thematic sections in the book represents a core area of Late Modern English studies. This division makes it easy for specialists to access the chapters that are of immediate relevance to their own work. An introductory chapter establishes connections between chapters within as well as between the four sections. The volume highlights recent advances in research methodology such as spelling normalization and other areas of corpus linguistics; several contributions also shed light on the interplay of internal and external factors in language change.

Émigrés

Author : Richard Scholar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691234000
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Émigrés written by Richard Scholar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the world English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—such as à la mode, ennui, naïveté and caprice—lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that would otherwise elude the language. Richard Scholar examines the continuing history of untranslated French words in English and asks what these words reveal about the fertile but fraught relationship that England and France have long shared and that now entangles English- and French-speaking cultures all over the world. Émigrés demonstrates that French borrowings have, over the centuries, “turned” English in more ways than one. From the seventeenth-century polymath John Evelyn’s complaint that English lacks “words that do so fully express” the French ennui and naïveté, to George W. Bush’s purported claim that “the French don’t have a word for entrepreneur,” this unique history of English argues that French words have offered more than the mere seasoning of the occasional mot juste. They have established themselves as “creolizing keywords” that both connect English speakers to—and separate them from—French. Moving from the realms of opera to ice cream, the book shows how migrant French words are never the same again for having ventured abroad, and how they complete English by reminding us that it is fundamentally incomplete. At a moment of resurgent nationalism in the English-speaking world, Émigrés invites native Anglophone readers to consider how much we owe the French language and why so many of us remain ambivalent about the migrants in our midst.

Studies in Language Variation and Change 2

Author : Catherine Delesse
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527512231
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Language Variation and Change 2 written by Catherine Delesse and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of eleven essays traces the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its Indo-European origins to the present day. Just like any other language, English is a complex system made up of several interconnected sub-systems – lexical, syntactical, phonological, morphological – and all of those sub-systems are subject to change, resulting in constant shifts and readjustments. Additionally, more than some other languages, English has a history marked by strong upheavals, particularly with the influence of Scandinavian and Romance languages in the Middle Ages. The contributions here consider all aspects of that complex history, with four of them taking a particular interest in the issues brought about by language contact with French and Latin.

The Dynamic Lexicon of English

Author : Julia Landmann
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004544038
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamic Lexicon of English written by Julia Landmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This study investigates the interrelation between use, meaning and the mind as a central issue of contact-induced linguistic variation and change, using the influence of French, Spanish, German and Yiddish on English as case studies. It relies on innovative methodological approaches, including the use of an integrative, socio-cognitive model of the dynamic lexicon, to describe borrowing processes and their linguistic outcomes. The multitude of socio-cultural contexts relevant to the introduction of the various borrowings since the nineteenth century has been reconstructed. This implies the identification of borrowings reflecting connections of linguistic features and culturally embedded attitudes. Taking the effects of cognitive and social factors on conventionalization and entrenchment processes into account, this study makes an original contribution to existing research.

Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics

Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110365952
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics by : Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Download or read book Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics written by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance languages offer a particularly fertile ground for the exploration of the relationship between language and society in different social contexts and communities. Focusing on a wide range of Romance languages – from national languages to minoritised varieties – this volume explores questions concerning linguistic diversity and multilingualism, language contact, medium and genre, variation and change. It will interest researchers and policy-makers alike.

Borrowed Words

Author : Philip Durkin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667072
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Words written by Philip Durkin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, andYiddish. 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. The long documented history of English includes contact with languages in a variety of contexts, including: the dissemination of Christian culture in Latin in Anglo-Saxon England, and the interactions of French, Latin, Scandinavian, Celtic, and English during the Middle Ages; exposure to languages throughout the world during the colonial era; and the effects of using English as an international language of science. Philip Durkin describes these and other historical inputs, introducing the approaches each requires, from the comparative method for the earliest period to documentary and corpus research in the modern. The discussion is illustrated at every point with examples taken from a variety of different sources. The framework Dr Durkin develops can be used to explore lexical borrowing in any language. This outstanding book is for everyone interested in English etymology and in loanwords more generally. It will appeal to a wide general public and at the same time offers a valuable reference for scholars and students of the history of English.

Middle English

Author : Laurel Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110525321
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Middle English written by Laurel Brinton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume provides a wide-ranging account of Middle English, organized by linguistic level. Not only are the traditional areas of linguistic study explored in state-of-the-art chapters, but the volume also covers less traditional areas of study, including creolization, sociolinguistics, literary language (including the language of Chaucer), pragmatics and discourse, dialectology, standardization, language contact, and multilingualism.

The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801

Author : Julia Landmann
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527510271
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801 by : Julia Landmann

Download or read book The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801 written by Julia Landmann and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are numerous investigations of the impact English has exerted on Spanish, the reverse language contact scenario has received comparatively little attention. This book sheds light on the Spanish influence on the English vocabulary since 1801, offering the first systematic analysis of the multitude of words which have been taken over from Spanish and its national varieties over the past few centuries. The results provided by this study rely on the evaluation of a comprehensive lexicographical sample of 1355 Spanish borrowings collected from the Oxford English Dictionary Online. The focus of linguistic concern here is on the chronological distribution of the various Spanish-derived words, their contextual usage, stylistic function and sense development from their earliest attested use in English until today. The present-day use of the borrowings is illustrated with documentary evidence retrieved from a variety of English language corpora.

Borrowing

Author : Shana Poplack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190256397
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Borrowing written by Shana Poplack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of bilingual behavior have been proliferating for decades, yet short shrift has been given to its major manifestation, the incorporation of words from one language into the discourse of another. This volume redresses that imbalance by going straight to the source: bilingual speakers in their social context. Building on more than three decades of original research based on vast quantities of spontaneous performance data and a highly ramified analytical apparatus, Shana Poplack characterizes the phenomenon of lexical borrowing in the speech community and in the grammar, both synchronically and diachronically. In contrast to most other treatments, which deal with the product of borrowing (if they consider it at all), this book examines the process: how speakers go about incorporating foreign items into their bilingual discourse; how they adapt them to recipient-language grammatical structure; how these forms diffuse across speakers and communities; how long they persist in real time; and whether they change over the duration. Attacking some of the most contentious issue in language mixing research empirically, it tests hypotheses about established loanwords, nonce borrowings and code-switches on a wealth of unique datasets on typologically similar and distinct language pairs. A major focus is the detailed analysis of integration: the principal mechanism underlying the borrowing process. Though the shape the borrowed form assumes may be colored by community convention, Poplack shows that the act of transforming donor-language elements into native material is universal. Emphasis on actual speaker behavior coupled with strong standards of proof, including data-driven reports of rates of occurrence, conditioning of variant choice and measures of statistical significance, make Borrowing an indispensable reference on language contact and bilingual behavior.

The Beginning Translator's Workbook

Author : Michèle H. Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538182335
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Beginning Translator's Workbook written by Michèle H. Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Beginning Translator's Workbook or the ABCs of French to English Translation combines methodology and practice for use in translation courses for beginners with a proficiency level in French ranging from intermediate to advanced, under the guidance and supervision of an instructor"--

Twentieth Century Borrowings from German to English

Author : Julia Schultz
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631675137
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (751 download)

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Book Synopsis Twentieth Century Borrowings from German to English by : Julia Schultz

Download or read book Twentieth Century Borrowings from German to English written by Julia Schultz and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study sheds light on the German influence on the English lexicon in the twentieth century. It provides the first systematic appraisal of the semantic integration and contextual usage of the words adopted from German in the recent past. The results are based on a corpus of 1958 borrowings collected from the Oxford English Dictionary Online.

English Adjective Comparison

Author : Victorina González-Díaz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902724815X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis English Adjective Comparison by : Victorina González-Díaz

Download or read book English Adjective Comparison written by Victorina González-Díaz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects in the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been ccounted for at all. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects analysed will also have synchronic implications. Furthermore, unlike previous synchronic as well as diachronic accounts of adjective comparison, this monograph does not concentrate on the 'standard' comparative strategies (i.e. inflectional and periphrastic forms) only, but also deals with double periphrastic comparatives, thus providing an analysis of the whole range of comparative structures in English.

Pseudo-English

Author : Cristiano Furiassi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501500236
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Pseudo-English by : Cristiano Furiassi

Download or read book Pseudo-English written by Cristiano Furiassi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on how English, through false Anglicisms, influences several European languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, German, Danish and Norwegian. Studies on false Gallicisms are also included, thus showing how English may be affected by false borrowings.