{"product_id":"external-influences-on-english-from-its-beginnings-to-the-renaissance-9780199654260","title":"External Influences on English: From Its Beginnings to the Renaissance","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnglish 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\u003cbr\u003eEnglish. 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\u003cbr\u003eloanwords from French, for example, not only increased the richness of English derivation but resulted in a complex competition between native and borrowed suffixes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGary 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. Gary Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199654260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGary Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Classics at the University of Florida. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1969, with a dissertation on \u003cem\u003eStudies in Some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of some 45 articles on Indo-European, classical, and general linguistics. His books include \u003cem\u003eHomer and the Ionian Epic Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e (1982), \u003cem\u003eImprovisation, Typology, Culture, and 'The New Orthodoxy': How 'Oral' is Homer?\u003c\/em\u003e (1982), \u003cem\u003eComplex Verb Formation\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), \u003cem\u003eAncient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e (1994), \u003cem\u003eNonfinite Structures in Theory and Change\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2002), \u003cem\u003eLatin Suffixal Derivatives in English\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2005), and \u003cem\u003eLanguage Change and Linguistic Theory\u003c\/em\u003e (2 vols, OUP 2010).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39934238785651,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":122.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_107aecfa-cf48-4e83-a584-4ea8e12371e2.jpg?v=1647878493","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/external-influences-on-english-from-its-beginnings-to-the-renaissance-9780199654260","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}