This book provides the fullest account ever published of the
external influences on English during the first thousand years of
its formation. In doing so it makes profound contributions to the
history of English and of western culture more generally.
English is a Germanic language but altogether different from the
other languages of that family. Professor Miller shows how and why
the Anglo-Saxons began to borrow and adapt words from Latin and
Greek. He provides detailed case studies of the processes by which
several hundred of them entered English. He also considers why
several centuries later the process of importation was renewed and
accelerated. He describes the effects of English contacts with the
Celts, Vikings, and French, and the ways in which these altered the
language's morphological and syntactic structure. He shows how
loanwords from French, for example, not only increased the richness
of English derivation but resulted in a complex competition between
native and borrowed suffixes.
Gary Miller combines historical, cultural, and linguistic
perspectives. His scholarly, readable, and always fascinating
account will be of enduring value to everyone interested in the
history of English.
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