English and Celtic in Contact

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A01=Heli Paulasto
A01=Juhani Klemola
A01=Markku Filppula
Adventus Saxonum
Author_Heli Paulasto
Author_Juhani Klemola
Author_Markku Filppula
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Celtic
Celtic Hypothesis
Celtic influence on English development
Celtic Inuence
Celtic Languages
Celtic Loanwords
Celtic substrate
Celtic Substratum
celts
Cleft Construction
community
Contact Effects
Denite Article
effects
EModE Period
English Progressive Form
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External Possessor
Gaelic
historical linguistics
hypothesis
insular
Insular Celts
inuences
Irish Speakers
language
language contact studies
language shift analysis
living
Living Community Language
loanwords
Manx Gaelic
Northern Subject Rule
OE Distinction
regional dialectology
Scottish Gaelic
SED Data
sociolinguistic variation
south
South Western Dialects
Van Der Auwera
Verbal Noun Construction

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415266024
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 28 May 2008
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.

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).

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