English and Celtic in Contact

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Routledge, Jun 3, 2008 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 332 pages
This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing work, it covers both the earliest medieval contacts and their linguistic effects and the reflexes of later, early modern and modern contacts, especially various regional varieties of English.
 

Contents

Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 18
Section 19
Section 20
Section 21
Section 22
Section 23
Section 24
Section 25

Section 9
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13
Section 14
Section 15
Section 16
Section 17
Section 26
Section 27
Section 28
Section 29
Section 30
Section 31
Section 32
Section 33
Section 34

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English and Celtic in Contact
Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Heli Paulasto
Limited preview - 2008
English and Celtic in Contact
Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Heli Paulasto
No preview available - 2012
English and Celtic in Contact
Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Heli Paulasto
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2008)

Markku Filppula is Professor of English at the University of Joensuu and Docent in English Philology at the University of Helsinki.

Juhani Klemola is Professor of English at the University of Tampere and co-editor of Speech Past and Present: Studies in English Dialectology in Memory of Ossi Ihalainen (1996) and of The Celtic Roots of English (2002).

Heli Paulasto (former Pitkänen) is a Joensuu-based dialectologist and is co-editor of The Celtic Roots of English (2002).

Bibliographic information

TitleEnglish and Celtic in Contact
Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
AuthorsMarkku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Heli Paulasto
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2008
ISBN1134501722, 9781134501724
Length332 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Medieval
  
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