No JavaScript support!

To take full advantage of this digital library, please verify if your browser supports JavaScript.

polski

English

dLibra Digital Library

readers on-line: 138

Edition

Export metadata

Favourite positions

Add to Favourites

Add to Favourites

Please login or register to use additional features!

Save this address

Add to bookmarks

Edition description

External lexical influences in the English language from antiquity to modern times

Show publication content!

Show publication content!

External lexical influences in the English language from antiquity to modern times

Zalega, Jan

borrowings ; external influences ; linguistics ; English ; language change

Studia Neofilologiczne. Rozprawy Językoznawcze ; T. 21 ; s. 199-222

This article aims to explain this process through discussing it and the related issues, such as delineating the distinctions between Old, Middle, and Modern English and offering detailed descriptions of notable external lexical influences that have shaped the English language. This article furnishes essential insights into the extent to which foreign words, now considered quintessentially English were contributed by diverse groups, including, Romans, Vikings, Native Americans, Spanish or Jews. Examples of lexical influence were selected based on their attestation in historical sources, dictionaries, and linguistic studies covering different stages of English (Old, Middle, and Modern). The analysis focused on etymology, semantic fields, and the socio-historical context of borrowing to illustrate patterns of external impact on English vocabulary.

Place of publishing:

Częstochowa

Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jana Długosza w Częstochowie

2025

artykuł

application/pdf

ISSN 2956-5731 ; oai:dlibra.bg.ajd.czest.pl:8157

10.16926/sn.2025.21.11 ; click here to follow the link

eng

Studia Neofilologiczne (ISSN 2657-3032)

click here to follow the link

Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jana Długosza w Częstochowie

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Uniwersytecka Uniwersytetu Jana Długosza w Częstochowie