English Words Found in Norman French
Author | : Walter William Skeat |
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Walter William Skeat |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : English language |
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Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3656552495 |
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Englisches Seminar), course: English Lexicology: Words and their Meaning, language: English, abstract: The dates for the beginning and end of the Middle English period are rather controversial. But many linguists do agree that by 1100 certain changes to the English language were sufficiently well established to justify the use of the adjective middle to designate the language in what was actually a phase of transition from the English of the early Middle Ages – Old English – to that of the first printed books at the end of the 15th century. During this period many changes occurred that may be noted in nearly every aspect of the language: in its phonology, its semantics and in its lexicon, where many Old English words were replaced by borrowed items from the French language. But although the French influence did not cease with the end of the 15th century, due to its size of merely seven pages this term paper will concentrate on the Middle English period. Starting with a short introduction to the historical background of the French Influence on the English language, there will be examples of the borrowed vocabulary, explanations why they were borrowed and how they can be further distinguished into loan words from Norman and Central French. Moreover, there will be an analysis of how the process of borrowing led to the highly distinctive vocabulary of the English language regarding register and style. The structure of this term paper is chronological as it seemed to be the most appropriate regarding the historical nature of this paper’s topic.
Author | : Bertha Marian Skeat |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Anglo-Norman dialect |
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Author | : Daniel Coit Gilman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1274 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : Frank Moore Colby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Emerson Worcester |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : English language |
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Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : J. P. Strachey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2011-06-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107600553 |
First published in 1924, this volume presents critical editions of three short Anglo-Norman texts. As the general editor, O. H. Prior notes in the Preface, 'the works selected are representative of three genres, a purely didactic poem on Geography, a legend of the Virgin, and a biblical subject'. Each selection is taken from among the numerous medieval manuscripts held in the colleges of the University of Cambridge, and the editions are given as exact copies of the manuscripts, with no corrections introduced and any alternative readings or emendations reserved for the notes. The book will continue to be of interest to scholars as a valuable source of minor Anglo-Norman works.