Contact and the Early History of English

Handbook of Language Contact

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 432-453

  Filppula, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

"Anglo Saxonist," going back to Victorian historians; Contact and early history of English; English cleft construction (CC); Influence from Classical and later medieval Latin; Influence from French; Influence from Scandinavian languages; Insular Anglo Saxon (Old English); Main sources of external linguistic influences on English in medieval period; Main sources of foreign influence on Medieval English

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755166053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318159.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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