Code-Switching in Early English

by Laura Wright and Herbert Schendl

The complex linguistic situation of earlier multilingual Britain has led to numerous contact-induced changes in the history of English. However, bi- and multilingual texts, which are attested in a large variety of text types, are still an underresearched aspect of earlier linguistic contact. Such texts, which switch between Latin, English and French, have increasingly been recognized as instances of written code-switching and as highly relevant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110253356
• ISBN13: 9783110253351
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary