Medieval English in a Multilingual Context: Current Methodologies and Approaches

Author:   Sara M. Pons-Sanz ,  Louise Sylvester
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
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Pages:   549
Publication Date:   15 November 2023
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Author:   Sara M. Pons-Sanz ,  Louise Sylvester
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.873kg
ISBN:  

9783031309465


ISBN 10:   3031309464
Pages:   549
Publication Date:   15 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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1 Introduction Part I Research Contexts 2 Contact Theory and the History of English 3 From Original Sources to Linguistic Analysis: Tools and Datasets for the Investigation of Multilingualism in Medieval EnglishPart II Medieval Multilingualism and Lexical Change 4 Contact-Induced Lexical Effects in Medieval English 5 The West Germanic Heritage of Yorkshire English 6 Reframing the Interaction between Native Terms and Loanwords: Some Data from Occupational Domains in Middle English7 Cheapside in Wales: Multilingualism and Textiles in Medieval Welsh Poetry 8 Caxton’s Linguistic and Literary Multilingualism: English, French and Dutch in the History of Jason Part III Medieval Multilingualism and Morphosyntactic Change 9 An Overview of Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in Early English 10 Traces of Language Contact in Nominal Morphology of Late Northumbrian and Northern Middle English 11 Origin and Spread of the Personal Pronoun They: La Estorie del Evangelie, a Case Study 12 Language Contact Effects on Verb Semantic Classes: Lability in Early English and Old French 13 Exploring Norn: A Historical Heritage Language of the British Isles  Part IV Textual Manifestations of Medieval Multilingualism14 Textual and Codicological Manifestations of Multilingual Culture in Medieval England 15 Adapting Winefride in Welsh, Latin and English 16 Let Each One Tell its Own Story: Language Mixing in Four Copies of Amore Langueo 17 The Materiality of the Manières de langage 18 Afterword

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Sara M. Pons-Sanz is Reader in Language and Communication at Cardiff University, UK. She led the AHRC-funded network Medieval English (ca600-1500) in a Multilingual Context and co-led the AHRC-funded Gersum Project. She is the author of The Lexical Effects of Anglo-Scandinavian Linguistic Contact on Old English, and other books and articles on medieval English.   Louise Sylvester is Professor of English Language at the University of Westminster, UK. She co-edited the Bilingual Thesaurus of Everyday Life in Medieval England and the multilingual database Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain c700-1450. She has published widely on the effects of contact with French on the vocabulary of Middle English.

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