Historical Code-Mixing in English Place-Names

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Historical Code-Mixing in English Place-Names is written by Tamás Fekete and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527586278 (ISBN 10) and 9781527586277 (ISBN 13).

This book provides new insights into the nature of hybrid place-names in England. It uncovers the different patterns of hybrid place-name formation, investigating the Celtic, the Anglo-Saxon, the Scandinavian and the Norman French layers and elements of English toponymy. The book analyses research conducted on a corpus of toponyms drawn from a place-name dictionary, and is embedded within the framework of sociolinguistics. It will appeal historians, historical linguists, and sociolinguists, as well as place-name scholars and local history enthusiasts.