D Gary Miller

Gebundenes Buch

External Influences on English

From Its Beginnings to the Renaissance

Beschreibung

In this fascinating history of the influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation the author shows when and why the Anglo-Saxons began to borrow words from Latin and Greek and the effects of contact with the Vikings, Celts, and French. A book of enduring value to everyone interested in the history of English.

Autor

Gary Miller is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Classics at the University of Florida. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1969, with a dissertation on Studies in Some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European. He is the author of some 45 articles on Indo-European, classical, and general linguistics. His books include Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition (1982), Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and 'The New Orthodoxy': How 'Oral' is Homer? (1982), Complex Verb Formation (1993), Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge (1994), Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change (OUP 2002), Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English (OUP 2005), and Language Change and Linguistic Theory (2 vols, OUP 2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9780199654260
• ISBN-10: 0199654263
• Artikelnr.: 35275438