Foreign Influences on Medieval English

The volume is a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 December 2009 and organized by the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management in ?ód? (Wy?sza Szko?a Przedsi?biorczo?ci i Zarz?dzania). The papers cover a wide range of topics concerning the impact of Latin, Scandinavian, French and Celtic on Old and Middle English from orthography, morphology and syntax to lexical semantics and onomastics.

Jacek Fisiak is a retired professor and head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna? (Poland), and currently head of the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management (Wy?sza Szko?a Przedsi?biorczo?ci i Zarz?dzania) in ?ód?. He has published widely in the area of English linguistics including the history of English, Old and Middle English and historical dialectology on both sides of the Atlantic. Magdalena Bator, born in 1980, received her PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna? in 2008. Currently she is a lecturer at the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management (Spo?eczna Wy?sza Szko?a Przedsi?biorczo?ci i Zarz?dzania) in Warsaw. Her research interests focus on various aspects of English historical linguistics, in particular historical lexicology.

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