The Influence Of Latin To The English Language Morphological And Lexical Features

Author : Rafael Damas Quiles
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668672376

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The Influence of Latin to the English Language. Morphological and Lexical Features by Rafael Damas Quiles Pdf

Examination Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: Distinction: 9.5/10, University of Jaén, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the enormous productivity of Latin in the English language throughout time. Influences, however, will be remarked on the lexical and morphological fields. Therefore, due to length restrictions, other aspects such as phonology will be overlooked. Firstly, the general linguistic, historical and social contextualization of Latin will be described. In other words, it will be analyzed how Latin came into contact with English. Afterwards, different periods of influence will be covered, as well as the morphological heritage that the English language took from Latin, ranging from derivation (for example prefixation and suffixation) to inflectional and compound processes. In all cases, the most illustrative examples will be offered. Finally, the etymological explanation will help to establish certain parallelisms between Latin and English. Thereby, it will be essential to state the idea, that English and Latin share numerous similar features, is still present, despite belonging to different language families, as well as their own peculiarities, which is to say, those properties that make both languages different in comparison to other ones.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783346946973

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The influence of Latin to affixes of the English language by Anonim Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik), course: History of English, language: English, abstract: The English language changed throughout its periods of existence. This development was, for example, influenced by other languages. The Latin language contains specific lexical and morphological features which the English language inherited. In order to understand which and why the features were taken from Latin and therefore influenced the English lexis and morphology, this paper will give a general overview about the development of the English language and the relationship to and influence of Latin. The morphological and lexical features of affixes will be examined in detail. The English language encountered other languages like Celtic or Scandinavian as well, but the strong relationship between Latin and English is undeniable, which marks the relevance for this paper. A reason English borrowed features of Latin, is the importance of the language in the past. Latin was a Lingua Franca, such as English is a Lingua Franca now. But Latin disappeared as a first language in the past. Nevertheless, several languages which are called “Latin variants” took over the language features of Latin. Such languages are Spanish, French, or Italian, which are Romance languages. These Latin stemmed languages came in contact with English and therefore influenced its development. The most prominent language contact in the Latin stemmed field of languages is French.

Author : Rafael Damas Quiles
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668659643

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Quality over Quantity. A Diachronic Approach to the Influence of Old Norse on the English Language by Rafael Damas Quiles Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject English - Miscellaneous, grade: Distinction: 9/10, University of Jaén, language: English, abstract: This dissertation aims at explaining the enormous impact of Old Norse on the English language, more prominent in quality than in quantity. Such influence is firstly dealt with by focusing on the historical and sociocultural context, which, split into different periods, becomes of paramount importance in order to grasp the essence of such contact, both linguistic and cultural, between both societies throughout the centuries. Linguistically, general features of the Germanic group of languages are approached from different perspectives, mainly from the phonetical and morphosyntactic ones. Likewise, such analysis is followed by a comparative one between Old Norse and Old English as coexisting languages, thus allowing similarities and differences between both of them to come to the fore. Finally, the Old Norse influence is covered by taking into special account morphosyntactic and lexical elements, that is, those areas where both Germanic languages have come closer to each other. Therefore, this has allowed us to delve into those numerous items stemming either from the same or from dissimilar sources, most of which, whatever the case, are still substantially present in the everyday uses of today’s English.

Author : Bert Cornillie,Bridget Drinka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 902726130X

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Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 33 (2019) by Bert Cornillie,Bridget Drinka Pdf

Author : Laurel Brinton,Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110525304

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Old English by Laurel Brinton,Alexander Bergs Pdf

The volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters investigate the state-of-the art in the linguistics of Old English and explore key areas of debate such as dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English and ends with a chapter discussing textual resources available for the study of earlier English.

Author : Desirée Kuthe
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638845113

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Latin Loanwords in English by Desirée Kuthe Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Córdoba, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Latin has always had a major influence on the English lexicon, from the Germanic period - even during the continental era, before the Germanics reached the British Isles - until today. It has also been the first and most consistent of the many languages English has borrowed from, during its gradual development into what we nowadays know as 'English'. More than 300 words have even "survived" into Modern English in their original Latin form, words such as actor, labor, elevator and vertigo. The accent of this paper, which will explore the respective loans English made in its various historical periods, will be on Old English, as it can most interestingly be divided into three periods of borrowing from Latin, the third of which, according to Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable, "marks the real beginning of the English habit to freely incorporate foreign elements into its vocabulary."

Author : Alexander Haselow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238211

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Typological Changes in the Lexicon by Alexander Haselow Pdf

This is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language that focuses exclusively on the lexical domain of the language. It presents an innovative approach to linguistic typology by focusing on the different encoding techniques used in the lexicon, providing a theoretical framework for the description of structural types (synthetic, analytic) and encoding techniques (fusional, isolating, agglutinative, incorporating) found in the lexicon of a language. It is argued that, in the case of English, the change from syntheticity to analyticity did not only affect its inflectional system and the encoding of grammatical information, but also the derivational component. Based on a cognitive approach to derivation, the book provides empirical evidence for a considerable decline in the use of synthetic structures and a trend towards higher degrees of analyticity in a specific lexical domain of English, the formation of nouns by means of derivation. The full extent of this change surfaced during the transition from Old English to early Middle English, but it was later partly reversed though influence from French. The typological shift was thus the result of a global structural reorganization of the language that resulted in a fundamental change of the structure of words. The book also presents a comprehensive account of the historical development of nominal derivation from the beginnings of Old English until the end of the early Middle English period. Based on empirical data from written sources the study documents the frequency of use of all Germanic-based derivational morphemes for nominalizations over different subperiods and discusses their origin as well as important changes of their semantic and morphological properties.

Author : Virginia Pulcini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110755220

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The Influence of English on Italian by Virginia Pulcini Pdf

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.

Author : Henry M. Hoenigswald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111418797

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Diachronic, areal, and typological Linguistics by Henry M. Hoenigswald Pdf

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Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521281393

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The Romance Languages by Rebecca Posner Pdf

What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of perspectives. Her analysis combines philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic. She relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors, and teases out those elements which can be attributed to divergence from a common source and those which indicate convergence towards a common aim. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included. This volume will be an invaluable and authoritative guide for students and specialists alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015079919190

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Hall Grandgent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Italian language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002430838

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From Latin to Italian by Charles Hall Grandgent Pdf

Author : Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847143457

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Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe by Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams Pdf

In a time when the increasing cultural diversity and population mobility of the continent calls for good communication skills, this fascinating book features a wealth of data and critical opinion on the topic of mother tongue education.In the first part of the book, the two editors address central cultural, political and educational concerns relating to the mother tongue, using some of the findings of their European Commission funded research on the changing European classroom. The second part presents case study articles by practitioners from nine countries which have significant regional or immigrant mother tongue populations. These include Welsh in Wales, Catalan and Galician in Spain, Turkish and Greek in Germany, Arabic and Corsican in France, and Belorussian in Poland, as well as critical accounts of the main first language situation in England, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, post-Soviet Russia, and Spain. The concluding part of the book looks at language awareness as a possible approach to linguistic diversity. It examines the preparation of teachers at all levels, as experinced by the editors through their involvement in an in international language study group based in Calgary, Cambridge, Mainz and Bialystock.Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe is packed with original information which will be of use to all teachers and educationalists concerned with language.

Author : James Clackson,Geoffrey Horrocks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444393583

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The Blackwell History of the Latin Language by James Clackson,Geoffrey Horrocks Pdf

This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of Cicero and Vergil, and examines the impact of the spread of spoken Latin through the Roman Empire. The first book in English in more than 50 years to provide comprehensive coverage of the history of the Latin language Gives a full account of the transformation of the language in the context of the rise and fall of Ancient Rome Presents up-to-date commentary on the key linguistic issues Makes use of carefully selected texts, many of which have only recently come to light Includes maps and glossary as well as fully translated and annotated sample texts that illustrate the different stages of the language Accessible to readers without a formal knowledge of Latin or linguistics

Author : B. Boyce
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004329133

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The Language of the Freedmen in Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis by B. Boyce Pdf

Realistic representation of the speech of the lower classes in ancient literature is largely confined to the comic genres, and Petronius' realism in this area is more thorough-going than that of any other ancient author. A vast scholarly literature has grown up around the question of how faithfully the speeches of Petronius' freedmen reflect characteristics of actual popular speech; this literature is reviewed and evaluated. A survey of the phonological, morphological, lexical, and syntactic peculiarities in these speeches is then undertaken, in which they are compared with other 'vulgar' Latin sources such as the Pompeian inscriptions; Petronius is in fact one of our most important early sources for the study of popular Latin. The way in which Petronius used specific varieties of non-standard Latin to characterize different freedmen speakers is explored: Petronius has subtly modulated his freedmen's speeches to reflect differing emotional states and the different attitudes of the speakers toward their social position. The present study is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject undertaken in over forty years in any language and the only one in English.