TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pahta,Päivi
AU  - Skaffari,Janne
AU  - Wright,Laura
TI  - Multilingual Practices in Language History: English and Beyond
T2  - Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] Series
SN  - 9781501504945
AV  - P115.3.M86 2018 
U1  - 306.44609 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Basel/Berlin/Boston
PB  - De Gruyter, Inc.
KW  - Code-switching--History
KW  - Languages in contact--History
KW  - Multilingualism--History
KW  - Multilingualism and literature--History
KW  - English language--History
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- I. Introduction -- 1. From historical code-switching to multilingual practices in the past -- 2. Historical and modern studies of codeswitching: A tale of mutual enrichment -- II. Borderlands -- 3. Code-switching in Anglo-Saxon England: A corpus-based approach -- 4. Twentieth-century Romance loans: Code-switching in the Oxford English Dictionary? -- 5. A semantic field and text-type approach to late-medieval multilingualism -- 6. Code-switching and contact influence in Middle English manuscripts from the Welsh Penumbra - Should we re-interpret the evidence from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? -- 7. Code-switching in the long twelfth century -- III. Patterns -- 8. "Trifling shews of learning"? Patterns of code-switching in English sermons 1640-1740 -- 9. The social and textual embedding of multilingual practices in Late Modern English: A corpus-based analysis -- 10. Mining macaronics -- 11. Visual diamorphs: The importance of language neutrality in code-switching from medieval Ireland -- 12. "Latin in recipes?" A corpus approach to scribal abbreviations in 15th-century medical manuscripts -- IV. Contexts -- 13. Administrative multilingualism on the page in early modern Poland: In search of a framework for written code-switching -- 14. Approaching the functions of historical code-switching: The case of solidarity -- 15. Medieval bilingualism in England: On the rarity of vernacular code-switching -- 16. A multilingual approach to the history of Standard English -- Index
N2  - This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches
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