Őrsi Tibor: French Linguistic Influence in the Cotton Version of Mandeville's Travels

202 oldal, B/5, puhafedeles
ISBN 9637094547
2006

List of abbreviations	6
1. Introduction	7
2. Sir John Mandeville	10
3. Problems in studying the influence of Old French on Middle English	14
4. Paths of borrowing French words in Middle English	30
5. The earliest attestations of borrowings from French (and/or Latin)	36
6. The most frequent words of French (and/or Latin) origin	74
7. The use of the word isle	101
8. Unique attestations of borrowings from French	111
9. Learned phrases with adjectives	122
10. The use of synonyms	131
11. Phraseological influence	140
12. Lexical disagreement	170
13. Sample passages	183
14. Conclusion	189
Bibliography	193