Sylvester, L.M., Tiddeman, M. and Ingham, R. 2023. Lexical replacement, retention and borrowing in Middle English: A case study. in: Language contact and the History of English: Processes and Effects on Specific Text-Types Peter Lang. pp. 165-187
| Chapter title | Lexical replacement, retention and borrowing in Middle English: A case study |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sylvester, L.M., Tiddeman, M. and Ingham, R. |
| Abstract | The Technical language and semantic shift in Middle English project makes use of an extensive corpus of vocabulary arranged into a semantic hierarchy in order to analyse patterns in specificity of meaning, semantic shift, lexicalisation and obsolescence. The present paper represents a preliminary investigation into one of our key research questions: do native terms and loanwords have different long-term outcomes in terms of lexical replacement and retention? The influx of predominately French borrowings into Middle English is extensively documented. However, our pilot study raises questions about the extent to which these incoming French loanwords caused terms of Old English origin to drop out of use and suggests that the overall rate of lexical replacement was not as high as might have been expected given some traditional accounts of borrowing. Our investigation also casts doubt on the predominant metaphor of competition between native terms and loanwords as a frame for understanding the interaction between French and English in the later medieval period. |
| Book title | Language contact and the History of English: Processes and Effects on Specific Text-Types |
| Page range | 165-187 |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publisher | Peter Lang |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 2023 |
| Series | Austrian Studies in English |
| ISBN | 9783631846629 |
| 9783631893555 | |
| 9783631893562 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3726/b20390 |
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Libri alienigeni: Evidence of Anglo-Italian language contact from the fifteenth-century port of Southampton
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The Cantelowe Accounts - Multilingual merchant records from Tuscany, 1450-1451
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The lexicalization of the idea of fashion in later medieval Britain
Sylvester, L.M. 2022. The lexicalization of the idea of fashion in later medieval Britain. in: Baicchi, A. and Biscetti, S. (ed.) The Language of Fashion: Linguistic, Cognitive and Cultural Insights Peter Lang.
Semantic shift in Middle English: Farming and Trade as test cases
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Lone other-language items in later medieval texts
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More sugar and spice: Revisiting medieval Italian influence on the mercantile lexis of England
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An analysis of French borrowings at the hypernymic and hyponymic levels of Middle English
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The role of multilingualism in the emergence of a technical register in the Middle English period
Sylvester, L.M. 2020. The role of multilingualism in the emergence of a technical register in the Middle English period. in: Wright, L. (ed.) The Multilingual Origins of Standard English de Gruyter Mouton.
Narrative in Keywords for Today
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Penetration of French-origin lexis in Middle English occupational domains
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The Bilingual Thesaurus of Everyday Life in Medieval England
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The Role of Technical Vocabulary in the Construction of the Medieval Romance Text Type
Sylvester, L.M. 2019. The Role of Technical Vocabulary in the Construction of the Medieval Romance Text Type. Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 118 (1), pp. 73-99. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.118.1.0073
Southampton and the later medieval textile trade - Encyclopaedia of Dress and Textiles in the British Isles c.450-1450
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Alum - Encyclopaedia of Dress and Textiles in the British Isles c.450-1450
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Lexical exchange with Italian in the textile and wool trades in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries
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Contact effects on the technical lexis of Middle English: A semantic hierarchic approach
Sylvester, L.M. 2018. Contact effects on the technical lexis of Middle English: A semantic hierarchic approach. English Language and Linguistics. 22 (Special Issue 2), pp. 249-264. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674318000126
A Semantic Field and Text-Type Approach to Late-Medieval Multilingualism
Sylvester, L.M. 2018. A Semantic Field and Text-Type Approach to Late-Medieval Multilingualism. in: Pahta, P., Skaffari, J. and Wright, L. (ed.) Multilingual Practices in Language History: English and Beyond Berlin de Gruyter Mouton. pp. 77-96
Early Anglo-Italian contact: new loanword evidence from two mercantile sources, 1440–1451
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Dress, Fashion and Anti-Fashion in the Medieval Imagination
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Blunder, Error, Mistake, Pitfall: Trawling the OED with the Help of the Historical Thesaurus
Roberts, J. and Sylvester, L.M. 2017. Blunder, Error, Mistake, Pitfall: Trawling the OED with the Help of the Historical Thesaurus. Altre Modernità. 04/2017, pp. 18-35. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/8299
Studying French-Origin Middle English Lexis Using the Bilingual Thesaurus of Medieval England: A Comparison of the Vocabulary of Two Occupational Domains
Sylvester, L.M. and Marcus, I. 2017. Studying French-Origin Middle English Lexis Using the Bilingual Thesaurus of Medieval England: A Comparison of the Vocabulary of Two Occupational Domains. in: Delesse, C. and Louviot, E. (ed.) Studies in Language Variation and Change 2: Shifting, Switching and Alternating Patterns in the History of English Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 217-228
A Bilingual Thesaurus of Everyday Life in Medieval England: Some Issues at the Interface of Semantics and Lexicography
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The Language of Dress and Textiles in Wills of the Old English Period
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Technical Vocabulary and Medieval Text Types: A Semantic Field Approach
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Middle English Style
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Mercantile multilingualism: two examples of Anglo-Norman and Italian contact in the fourteenth century
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Multilingualism in the vocabulary of dress and textiles in late medieval Britain: some issues for historical lexicology
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Mining for gold: investigating a semantic classification in the lexis of cloth and clothing
Sylvester, L.M. 2012. Mining for gold: investigating a semantic classification in the lexis of cloth and clothing. in: Netherton, R. and Owen-Crocker, G. (ed.) Medieval Clothing and Textiles Boydell.
Middle English: semantics and the lexicon
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The lexis of cloth and clothing in Britain c.700-1450: origins. identification, contexts and change
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The roles of reader construal and lexicographic authority in the interpretation of Middle English texts
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Lexicological confusion and medieval clothing culture: redressing medieval dress with the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain Project
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From apareil to warderobe: some observations on Anglo-French in the Middle English
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'Romance', 'Dream Vision', 'Sir Amadace', ,Sir Cleges', 'Sir Degaré', 'Sir Launfal', 'Sir Tristrem'
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Medieval romance and the construction of heterosexuality
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Teaching the language of Chaucer
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Evidence for diachronic semantic change in the historical thesaurus of English: a cognitive linguistic approach
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Categories and taxonomies: a cognitive approach to lexicographical resources
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