Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents VII
4. Abbreviations
5. Introduction 1
6. The sociohistorical context of multilingualism 15
7. Overview of the data 32
8. Loanwords in the semantic hierarchy 58
9. The effect of loanwords on the native lexis 83
10. Polysemy and sense-sharing 109
11. Metaphor and metonymy 136
12. Text types and semantic integration 157
13. Bilingualism and polysemy 180
14. Conclusions: Semantic change and language contact 195
15. References
16. Index of words in Middle English 215
17. Index of words in other languages and varieties 221
18. Index 223