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The Arabic Contributions to the English Language

An Historical Dictionary

By: Garland Hampton Cannon,Alan S. Kaye

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The Arabic Contributions to the English Language

An Historical Dictionary

By: Garland Hampton Cannon,Alan S. Kaye

The largest and most up-to-date collection of English words and multiword units borrowed from the Arabic, directly or indirectly, totalling 2338 items. All major dictionaries in English were surveyed, including new-word collections, and college dictionaries.Each dictionary entry gives the fi rst recorded date of the loan in English, the semantic field, variant forms, etymology, the English definitions, derivative forms, and sometimes grammatical comment. The major sources of each entry are noted, along with the approximate degree of assimilation in English. A substantial part of the book is devoted to nontechnical analytical essays, which treat the forty-six semantic areas so as to embrace all disciplines and throw light on the individual subject. Other essays treat the phonological and linguistic aspects of the data, so as to show how languages in contact interact and ultimately influence each other's culture. This is a wide-ranging, innovational book that advances the study of comprehensive borrowing within languages over the centuries.

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The Persian Contributions to the English Language

An Historical Dictionary

By: Garland Hampton Cannon,Alan S. Kaye

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An Historical Dictionary

By: Garland Hampton Cannon,Alan S. Kaye

The Persian Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary contains 811 main entries. Its major purpose is to advance the historical study of comprehensive, chiefly lexical borrowing between languages in contact. The ancillary purpose is to show how a collected corpus of loans can shed light on multiple disciplines. This wide-ranging, innovative book is the largest, most up-to-date collection of English words and multiword lexical units borrowed from Persian, directly or through a mediating language such as Hindi/Urdu, Arabic or Turkish. All general English dictionaries were searched, including electronic retrieval from the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. A major feature of the tome is that each dictionary entry gives its first known recorded date in written English, its semantic field, any modern variant form and labels, etymology including 'native' meaning(s), English definitions in chronological order as could be dated, any derivative forms includ-ing functional shifts and compounds, sometimes a grammatical note, the symbolized sources where the loan is recorded, and the degree of naturalization in English.

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3447045035

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Sir William Jones

A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

By: Garland Hampton Cannon

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Sir William Jones

A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

By: Garland Hampton Cannon

Sir William Jones (1746 1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. His third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society on the history and culture of the Hindus (1786) is often cited as the beginning of comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies. Jones' interdisciplinary scholarship innovatively combined language and linguistic study with the traditional subjects of research to throw light on transcending questions like the origins of man and culture. This bibliography aims to provide an overview of the full width of his writings and secondary scholarship.

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Sir William Jones

A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

By: Garland Hampton Cannon

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A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

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The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones

Sir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics

By: Garland Cannon

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The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones

Sir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics

By: Garland Cannon

Sir William Jones (1746-1794) is best known for his famous Third Discourse of 1786 in which he proposed that Sanskrit's affinity to Greek and Latin could be explained by positing a common, earlier source, one known today as Indo-European. This brilliant thesis laid the groundwork for modern comparative linguistics. Jones' interests and achievements, however, ranged far beyond language. He studied and made contributions to anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, botany, history, law, literature, music, physiology, politics, and religion. He served as a Supreme Court justice in India and founded the Asiatic Society, which stimulated world-wide interest in India and the Orient. He was friends with many of the leading intellectuals of his day and corresponded with Benjamin Franklin in America and with Burke, Gibbon, Johnson, Percy and Reynolds in Britain. In his short life he mastered so many languages that he was regarded even in his own time as a phenomenon, and so he was. Garland Cannon, editor of the much acclaimed The Letters of Sir William Jones, has written a new and definitive biography of this fascinating man, who in his life and works teaches us that the path to understanding and appreciating the art and literature of a great culture very different from our own is through devoted study, a tolerant spirit, and an unquenchably curious mind.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521391490

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The Arabic Contributions to the English Language

The Arabic Contributions to the English Language

The Persian Contributions to the English Language

The Persian Contributions to the English Language

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Sir William Jones

Sir William Jones

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The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones

The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones

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