The NormanFrench (or Anglo-Norman) influence on Middle English lexis

Language contact is one of the main factors resulting in an enriched lexicon as languagesborrow and assimilate foreign "loan words" while they spread their own lexis as well as theirmorphological and syntactic peculiarities. Like any other language, English and French have beentaking part...

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Main Author:	Amélie RAGOT
Format:	Article
Language:	deu
Published:	Vasile Goldis Western University, Arad 2011-01-01
Series:	Studii de Stiinta si Cultura
Subjects:	borrowings lexis vocabulary Anglo-Norman Norman French Middle English
Online Access:	http://www.revista-studii-uvvg.ro/images/stories/27/8%20Ragot.pdf

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title	The NormanFrench (or Anglo-Norman) influence on Middle English lexis
title_short	The NormanFrench (or Anglo-Norman) influence on Middle English lexis
title_full	The NormanFrench (or Anglo-Norman) influence on Middle English lexis
title_fullStr	The NormanFrench (or Anglo-Norman) influence on Middle English lexis
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publisher	Vasile Goldis Western University, Arad
series	Studii de Stiinta si Cultura
issn	1841-1401 2067-5135
publishDate	2011-01-01
description	Language contact is one of the main factors resulting in an enriched lexicon as languagesborrow and assimilate foreign "loan words" while they spread their own lexis as well as theirmorphological and syntactic peculiarities. Like any other language, English and French have beentaking part in such a phenomena. Since the Norman Conquest of 1066, French borrowings havepermeated through the English lexis due to the common history shared by these two languages.Several stages can be observed in which major influxes of French words, especially Norman andAnglo-Norman words, were brought about in Middle English. Such words are nowadays fullyintegrated in Modern English and give evidence of the close relationship between French andEnglish.
topic	borrowings lexis vocabulary Anglo-Norman Norman French Middle English
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The NormanFrench (or Anglo-Norman) influence on Middle English lexis

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