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Chapter 9: Language contact

  • Laura Wright
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Volume 4 Early Modern English
This chapter is in the book Volume 4 Early Modern English

Abstract

This chapter discusses contact between English and other languages, and also contact between different dialects within Britain. Such contact is likely to have led to grammatical changes, lexical borrowings and the rise of Standard English. Non-standard, predominantly Southern, English carried abroad by colonizers is also treated, as this is the period when English first became established in the New World and southern hemisphere. The main languages referred to in this chapter are Anglo-Norman, Medieval Latin, the Celtic languages spoken in Britain, Dutch, and French.

Abstract

This chapter discusses contact between English and other languages, and also contact between different dialects within Britain. Such contact is likely to have led to grammatical changes, lexical borrowings and the rise of Standard English. Non-standard, predominantly Southern, English carried abroad by colonizers is also treated, as this is the period when English first became established in the New World and southern hemisphere. The main languages referred to in this chapter are Anglo-Norman, Medieval Latin, the Celtic languages spoken in Britain, Dutch, and French.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents V
  3. Abbreviations VII
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 2: Early Modern English: Overview 8
  6. Chapter 3: Phonology 27
  7. Chapter 4: Morphology 47
  8. Chapter 5: Syntax 68
  9. Chapter 6: Lexicon and semantics 89
  10. Chapter 7: Pragmatics and discourse 108
  11. Chapter 8: Dialects 128
  12. Chapter 9: Language contact 150
  13. Chapter 10: Standardization 167
  14. Chapter 11: Sociolinguistics 188
  15. Chapter 12: Pronouns 209
  16. Chapter 13: Periphrastic DO 224
  17. Chapter 14: The Great Vowel Shift 241
  18. Chapter 15: Relativization 267
  19. Chapter 16: Literary language 287
  20. Chapter 17: The language of Shakespeare 309
  21. Index 333
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110525069-009

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents V
  3. Abbreviations VII
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 2: Early Modern English: Overview 8
  6. Chapter 3: Phonology 27
  7. Chapter 4: Morphology 47
  8. Chapter 5: Syntax 68
  9. Chapter 6: Lexicon and semantics 89
  10. Chapter 7: Pragmatics and discourse 108
  11. Chapter 8: Dialects 128
  12. Chapter 9: Language contact 150
  13. Chapter 10: Standardization 167
  14. Chapter 11: Sociolinguistics 188
  15. Chapter 12: Pronouns 209
  16. Chapter 13: Periphrastic DO 224
  17. Chapter 14: The Great Vowel Shift 241
  18. Chapter 15: Relativization 267
  19. Chapter 16: Literary language 287
  20. Chapter 17: The language of Shakespeare 309
  21. Index 333
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