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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents1 Introduction Part I Research Contexts 2 Contact Theory and the History of English 3 From Original Sources to Linguistic Analysis: Tools and Datasets for the Investigation of Multilingualism in Medieval EnglishPart II Medieval Multilingualism and Lexical Change 4 Contact-Induced Lexical Effects in Medieval English 5 The West Germanic Heritage of Yorkshire English 6 Reframing the Interaction between Native Terms and Loanwords: Some Data from Occupational Domains in Middle English7 Cheapside in Wales: Multilingualism and Textiles in Medieval Welsh Poetry 8 Caxton’s Linguistic and Literary Multilingualism: English, French and Dutch in the History of Jason Part III Medieval Multilingualism and Morphosyntactic Change 9 An Overview of Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in Early English 10 Traces of Language Contact in Nominal Morphology of Late Northumbrian and Northern Middle English 11 Origin and Spread of the Personal Pronoun They: La Estorie del Evangelie, a Case Study 12 Language Contact Effects on Verb Semantic Classes: Lability in Early English and Old French 13 Exploring Norn: A Historical Heritage Language of the British Isles Part IV Textual Manifestations of Medieval Multilingualism14 Textual and Codicological Manifestations of Multilingual Culture in Medieval England 15 Adapting Winefride in Welsh, Latin and English 16 Let Each One Tell its Own Story: Language Mixing in Four Copies of Amore Langueo 17 The Materiality of the Manières de langage 18 Afterword
