Medieval English in a multilingual context : current methodologies and approaches / edited by Sara M. Pons-Sanz, Louise Sylvester.
Pons-Sanz, Sara María, editor.; Sylvester, Louise, editor
2023
P115.5.G7 M43 2023
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Medieval English in a multilingual context : current methodologies and approaches / edited by Sara M. Pons-Sanz, Louise Sylvester.
ISBN
3031309472 (electronic book)
9783031309472 (electronic bk.)
3031309464
9783031309465
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30947-2
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxvi, 549 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-30947-2 doi
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P115.5.G7 M43 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
404.209410902
Summary
This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book offers overviews of the state of the art of research and case studies on this subject in (sub)disciplines of linguistics including historical linguistics, onomastics, lexicology and lexicography, sociolinguistics, code-switching and language contact, and also includes contributions from literary and socio-cultural studies, material culture, and palaeography. The authors focus on the variety of languages in use in medieval Britain, including English, Old Norse, Norn, Dutch, Welsh, French, and Latin, making the argument that understanding the impact of medieval multilingualism on the development of English requires multidisiplinarity and the bringing together of different frameworks in linguistics and cultural studies to achieve more nuanced answers. This book will be of interest to academics and students of historical linguistics and medieval textual culture. Sara M. Pons-Sanz is Reader in Language and Communication at Cardiff University, UK. She led the AHRC-funded network Medieval English (ca600-1500) in a Multilingual Context and co-led the AHRC-funded Gersum Project. She is the author of The Lexical Effects of Anglo-Scandinavian Linguistic Contact on Old English, and other books and articles on medieval English. Louise Sylvester is Professor of English Language at the University of Westminster, UK. She co-edited the Bilingual Thesaurus of Everyday Life in Medieval England and the multilingual database Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain c700-1450. She has published widely on the effects of contact with French on the vocabulary of Middle English.
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Pons-Sanz, Sara María, editor.
Sylvester, Louise, editor
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New approaches to English historical linguistics.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
1 Context of the Volume
2 Contents and Structure of the Volume
References
Part I: Research Contexts
2: Contact Theory and the History of English
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Approaches to Language Contact
2.1 Weinreich (1953)
2.2 Language Contact Theory in the 1980s
2.3 In Search of Terminological Exactitude
2.4 On Contact Effects in English: Where It Takes Us

3 Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language Contact and Their Relevance to Understanding the Outcomes of Medieval Multilingualism
3.1 Trudgill (2004)
3.2 Sociolinguistic Work on Language Contact in London
Characteristics of MLE
The Role of Language Contact in the Emergence of MLE
Relevance for the Study of Historical Language Contact
3.3 Applying Trudgill's Theory to Medieval Contexts
Mixing
Levelling
3.4 Unmarking
Interdialect Development
4 Conclusion
References

3: From Original Sources to Linguistic Analysis: Tools and Datasets for the Investigation of Multilingualism in Medieval English
1 Introduction
2 Accessing the Manuscript
3 From Manuscript to Transcription
4 From Transcription to (Annotated) Text
5 From Annotated Text to Using Linguistically Annotated Corpora
6 Lemmatisation
7 Conclusion
References
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Part II: Medieval Multilingualism and Lexical Change
4: Contact-Induced Lexical Effects in Medieval English
1 Introduction
2 Place-Names

3 Lexical Borrowings
4 Challenges Presented by the Documentary Record
5 Language Borrowing and Language Borders
References
5: The West Germanic Heritage of Yorkshire English
1 Introduction: The Abundance of Norse Loanwords in English
2 The Overestimation of the Norse Component in (Yorkshire) English
2.1 The Relation with Frisian
2.2 Lexical Support and Loanwords
2.3 Northern English as a Peripheral Variety
2.4 The 'Velar' Argument
2.5 The Acquisition of a Bilingual Lexicon
3 Data and Methodology of the Yorkshire Case Study

4 Comparison of YD, OED and This Study
5 Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix 1: APV and OED: North Germanic Words
Appendix 2: APV and OED: West Germanic Words
Appendix 3: APV: West Germanic vs. OED: North Germanic
References
6: Reframing the Interaction between Native Terms and Loanwords: Some Data from Occupational Domains in Middle English
1 Introduction
2 Introduction to the Semantic Hierarchy
3 Focus on the Vocabulary Relating to Trade
3.1 The Categories Making up the Semantic Domain of Trade

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