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Twenty-two scholars in sixteen European countries chart the English invasion of their national languages over the last five decades. They examine the particular groups of English words that have been adopted and the ways in which their meanings have been modified and in some cases transformed. They also consider the popular and political reactions over Europe to the influx of anglicisms.

This is a bibliography of all significant work charting the importation of English into European languages. The book is divided by language, with each entry accompanied by a critical description of its contents. This will be an indispensable research machine for scholars and others interested in this fascinating aspect of recent linguistic change.

The great structural changes of the English language in the course of its history are taught in this textbook by continuous reference to translations of identical Biblical passages, which date from different periods and are printed in parallel. Analysis progresses from spelling and phonology to inflexion, word-formation, syntax, lexicology and semantics and ends with a chapter on foreign influences. Description is consistently based on functio...

Twenty-two scholars in sixteen European countries chart the English invasion of their national languages over the last five decades. They examine the particular groups of English words that have been adopted and the ways in which their meanings have been modified and in some cases transformed. They also consider the popular and political reactions over Europe to the influx of anglicisms.

The first dictionary of its kind to provide an exhaustive comparative treatment of the influence of English on other European languages. Covering sixteen selected languages from different language families, entries consist of words which are recognizably English in form and which appear in at least one of the languages tested. Entries are comprised of a brief definition, followed by a summary paragraph containing a wealth of historical and lin...

The history of modern European languages has been largely determined by the range of functions they have acquired, particularly after 1500. This development necessitated a notable expansion of their syntax and lexis, but is most characteristically reflected in the conventionalization of text types. Starting from the German concept of Textsorte as developed from the 1960s onwards, the present account is a first comprehensive attempt at chartin...

This final collection of the author's papers devoted to the history of English compromises ten recent (revised) contribined with a few original chapters. topics range from corpus linguistics to linguistic problems of editing, text type analysis and to the impact of rhetoric, and from semantic change to translationi problems of medieval texts. These papers are framed by an outline account of the structural development of English and the contrib...

Englische Sprachgeschichte soll in dieser Einführung an Texten erarbeitet werden. Unter Anwendung moderner linguistischer Methoden werden die wichtigsten strukturellen Wandlungen des Englischen auf den verschiedenen sprachlichen Ebenen (Schriftsysteme, Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax, Lexik, Semantik, Lehnbeziehungen) exemplarisch behandelt. Das Buch ist als Komplement zu einem Grundkurs Linguistik konzipiert.Vorherige Auflagen sind in der Rei...

The period between 1500 and 1700 was the most decisive one in the formation of standard modern English, yet no really comprehensive account of Early Modern English has been available. Manfred Görlach's Introduction to Early Modern English fills a very real need. It provides a thorough and linguistically informed synchronic description of Early Modern English, dealing with its varieties, with writing and orthography, phonetics and phonology, sy...

This book provides an introduction to nineteenth-century English in England. It examines a wide range of varieties, including political speeches, newspaper articles, advertisements, obituaries, Sunday School poetry, and culinary recipes, so as to illustrate the range of dialects and levels found in the language of that period. The first part of the book provides an overview of the subject, while the second part contains an extensive selection ...

This book provides an introduction to nineteenth-century English in England. It examines a wide range of varieties, including political speeches, newspaper articles, advertisements, obituaries, Sunday School poetry, and culinary recipes, so as to illustrate the range of dialects and levels found in the language of that period. The first part of the book provides an overview of the subject, while the second part contains an extensive selection ...

This is the first textbook accessible to students for use in university courses since Grant & Dixon (1921) - in contrast to the many introductions available for the history of British and American English. The description deals with the status and forms of Scots, its incipient standardization and the dialectalization followed by its development 1400-2000 on the levels of spelling, phonology, inflection, syntax and lexis. Special chapters are d...

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Reviews tend to be the most ephemeral products in scholar's life - and yet, many are worth keeping and re-reading. Some forty of the author's reviews are here selected and arranged under Medieval studies, Historical linguistics and the history of English, Dialectology, socio-linguistics and contact linguistics, and Lexicography. A full bibliography of all the reviews 1972-2002 and indexes conclude the book.

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