Language Contact in the History of English: 2 nd, revised edition (Paperback, 2, Revised)

Contents: Dieter Kastovsky/Arthur Mettinger: Introduction ? David Burnley: French and Frenches in fourteenth-century London ? Andrei Danchev(†)/Merja Kyto: The Middle English ≪for to + infinitive≫ construction: A twofold contact phenomenon? ? Hans-Jurgen Diller: Verbs of verbal communication in the English Renaissance: A lexical field under language contact ? Richard Dury: The history of the English language in the context of the history of the European languages ? Andreas Fischer: Lexical borrowing and the history of English: A typology of typologies ? Udo Fries: Foreign place names in the ZEN-Corpus ? Raymond Hickey: Language contact and typological difference: Transfer between Irish and Irish English ? Thomas Kohnen: The influence of ≪Latinate≫ constructions in Early Modern English: Orality and literacy as complementary forces ? Lucia Kornexl: ≪Unnatural Words≫? Loan formations in Old English glosses ? Manfred Markus: Duplications of vowels in Middle English spelling ? Gabriella Mazzon: Language contact in the history of Englishes, or the genesis of extraterritorial varieties ? Ruta Nagucka: Latin prepositional phrases and their Old English equivalents ? Gabriele Rinelli: Scandinavian and native social terms in Middle English: The case of cherl/carl ? Nikolaus Ritt: The spread of Scandinavian third person plural pronouns in English: Optimisation, adaptation and evolutionary stability ? Herbert Schendl: Code-switching in medieval English poetry ? Robert P. Stockwell/Donka Minkova: The partial-contact origins of English parameter verse: The Anglicization of an Italian model ? Laura Charlotte Wright: Models of language mixing: Code-switching versus semicommunication in medieval Latin and Middle English accounts.