Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
1: Introducing Concepts
2: Introducing the Data
Part II: Early COntacts in Continental Europe and Britain
3: Historical and Cultural Background to c. 1150
4: Very Early Borrowings into Germanic
5: Old English in Contact with Celtic
Part III: Old English and Proto-Old English in Contact with latin
Introduction to Part III
6: An Overview of Latin Loanwords in Old English
7: Interrogating the Data from Chapter 6
8: Methodologies: sound change; word geography; loanwords versus semantic borrowing
Conclusions to Part III
Part IV: Scandinavian Influence
Introduction to Part IV
9: Introduction to Scandinavian Loanwords in English
10: Identifying Scandinavian Borrowings, and Assessing their Impact
Conclusions to Part IV
Part V: Borrowing from French and Latin in Middle English
Introduction to Part V
11: Exploring the Contact Situation and Identifying Loans
12: Quantifying French and Latin Contributions to Middle English
13: Example Passages from English and Multilingual Texts
Conclusions to Part V
Part VI: Loanwords into English after 1500; how Borrowing has Affected the Lexicon
Introduction to Part VI
14: Borrowing from Latin and French after 1500
15: Loanwords from Other Languages: test cases
16: Long-term Effects of Loanwords on the Shape of the English Lexicon
17: General Conclusions and Pointers for Further Investigation
References
Index

About the Author

Philip Durkin is Principal Etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary. His Oxford Guide to Etymology (2009; paperback edition 2011) has become the standard work in the field.

Reviews

Philip Durkin has shown himself in this highly readable book to be a 'superstar' in the etymological history of words borrowed into English.
*Eric Stanley, Notes and Queries*

Written clearly and authoritatively, the History of Loanwords in English is a solid, scholarly piece of work ... While being intellectually rigorous, the monograph is also highly readable, and Durkinâs skill of explaining very complex issues in an uncomplicated way, as well as his precise terminological apparatus are particularly worth emphasizing. One may wonder whether the book has any weaknesses at all.
*Miroslawa Podhajecka, International Journal of Lexicography*

Philip Durkin introduces and investigates how successive phases of language contact have made their mark on the vocabulary of English. Underlying the whole enterprise is an impressive, sagacious control of basic (and more advanced) principles, which are gradually laid out before the reader and illustrated with much thought. This is an important and engaging book.
*Richard Dance, University of Cambridge*

an indispensable addition to the library shelves.
*Sarah Powell, Reference Reviews*