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Title: Foreign Influences on Medieval English

Foreign Influences on Medieval English

by Jacek Fisiak (Volume editor) Magdalena Bator (Volume editor)
©2011 Conference proceedings 328 Pages
English Studies
Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, Volume 28

Summary

The volume is a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 December 2009 and organized by the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management in Łódź (Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Zarządzania). The papers cover a wide range of topics concerning the impact of Latin, Scandinavian, French and Celtic on Old and Middle English from orthography, morphology and syntax to lexical semantics and onomastics.

Details

Pages
328
Year
2011
ISBN (PDF)
9783653008579
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631614242
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-00857-9
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (April)
Keywords
Onomastics Borrowing Language contact Mittelenglisch Lehnwort Kongress Warschau (2009) Multilingualism
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 326 pp., num. ill., tables and graphs

Biographical notes

Jacek Fisiak (Volume editor) Magdalena Bator (Volume editor)

Jacek Fisiak is a retired professor and head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland), and currently head of the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management (Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Zarządzania) in Łódź. He has published widely in the area of English linguistics including the history of English, Old and Middle English and historical dialectology on both sides of the Atlantic. Magdalena Bator, born in 1980, received her PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań in 2008. Currently she is a lecturer at the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management (Społeczna Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Zarządzania) in Warsaw. Her research interests focus on various aspects of English historical linguistics, in particular historical lexicology.

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