Language Contact and Semantic Development in Late Medieval English
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Language Contact and Semantic Development in Late Medieval English

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Language Contact and Semantic Development in Late Medieval English

About this book

The multilingual context of medieval Britain has been a focus of historical linguistic scholarship for some time, but Middle English has often been examined in isolation. This book analyzes a large dataset of English vocabulary from the late Middle Ages, a time when the language was gaining new importance, with attention paid to parallel lexical developments in French and Latin. It explores lexical and semantic innovations and losses, and its findings challenge the notion that native and borrowed words were in competition during the period. The book presents a new picture of ongoing bilingualism in the late medieval period and a growth in vocabulary that heralded the beginnings of standardization in English.

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Yes, you can access Language Contact and Semantic Development in Late Medieval English by Louise Sylvester,Megan Tiddeman,Richard Ingham,Kathryn Allan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Historical & Comparative Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Frontmatter
  5. Contents
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. The sociohistorical context of multilingualism
  9. Overview of the data
  10. Loanwords in the semantic hierarchy
  11. The effect of loanwords on the native lexis
  12. Polysemy and sense-sharing
  13. Metaphor and metonymy
  14. Text types and semantic integration
  15. Bilingualism and polysemy
  16. Conclusions: Semantic change and language contact
  17. Index of words in Middle English
  18. Index of words in other languages and varieties
  19. Index
  20. Index
  21. Person Index
  22. Subject Index