Provides an introduction to those interested in the history of the English language. This book outlines the major issues and terminology used in the field of Historical Linguistics, a required part of
The frequent mixing of different languages in early English texts, especially Latin, English and French, has been neglected by historical English linguistics. The contributions in this volume approach
The book presents contributions to the 2012 conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English in which scholars of various fields of English Studies discuss aspects of contact a
