Mitsumi Uchida, Yoko Iyeiri & Lawrence Schourup (eds.), Language Contact and Variation in the History of English (Kaitakusha, 2017)
Studies in the History of the English Language , No. 7
Language Contact and Variation in the History of English is the 7th volume of the series, Studies in the History of the English Language. It is a booklet series published by Kaitakusha for the Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language.
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This booklet includes seven papers, all dealing with language contact and variation from historical perspectives. They are grouped into the fields of “Translation and Biblical Texts”, “Contact Found in Various Texts”, “Contact across Generations”, and “English as a Foreign Language in Earlier Days”.
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Preface
Mitsumi Uchida, Yoko Iyeiri & Lawrence Schourup
Translation of Biblical Texts
Caxton’s Golden Legend: How Many Translators? (John Scahill)
Characteristics of the Glosses to the Latin Pronoun Is in the Gospel According to St. Matthew in the Lindisfarne Gospels and Their Implication for the Development of the Third Person Plural Pronouns in English (Yoshitaka Kozuka)
Contact Found in Various Texts
The Spelling and Syntax of Doubt in Early Modern English: Variation and Latin Influence (Yoko Iyeiri)
For and Because: A Comparative Study of Causal Conjunctions in Caxton’s Paris and Vienne and Three French Versions of the Same Text (Mitsumi Uchida & Yoko Iyeiri)
Contact across Generations
How Viking Descendants Reshaped the English Vocabulary (Joseph Emonds & Jan Terje Faarlund)
Intermittence of Short-distance Cliticization in QPs: A Case Study of Language Change from the North (Tomohiro Yanagi)
English as a Foreign Language in Earlier Days
Voltaire’s English: Forms of Adjective Comparison (Yasutaka Imai)
Index
