Nineteenth-Century French Cuisine Terms and their Semantic Integration into English / Julia Schultz. On the Metaphor-Metonymy Interface in Zoosemy: The Case of tail / Robert Kiełtyka -- Investigating Semantic Change in Derivational Morphology / Marion Schulte -- Grammatical Gender Variation in Old English Inanimate Nouns / Oxana Kharlamenko -- From "Alfred King" to "The King Alfred": Changes in the Use of Proper Names with Titles in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Elżbieta Sielanko-Byford -- A Diachronic Analysis of Internal Vowel Alternation in the English Verbal Past Tense Conjugation System / Elena Even-Simkin -- Now Say 'Ah': Internal Factors of Shifting and the English Low Vowel Space / Thomas Kettig -- English and French in Medieval England: Spoken Bilingualism or Code Diglossia? / Richard Ingham -- Code-Switched Adjectives in Macaronic Sermons / Mareike Keller -- Studying French-Origin Middle English Lexis Using the Bilingual Thesaurus of Medieval England: A Comparison of the Vocabulary of Two Occupational Domains / Louise Sylvester & Imogen Marcus -- Nineteenth-Century French Cuisine Terms and their Semantic Integration into English / Julia Schultz.
Summary:
This collection of eleven essays traces the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its Indo-European origins to the present day. Just like any other language, English is a complex system made up of several interconnected sub-systems - lexical, syntactical, phonological, morphological - and all of those sub-systems are subject to change, resulting in constant shifts and readjustments. Additionally, more than some other languages, English has a history marked by strong upheavals, particularly with the influence of Scandinavian and Romance languages in the Middle Ages. The contributions here consider all aspects of that complex history, with four of them taking a particular interest in the issues brought about by language contact with French and Latin.
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