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 |