AMERICAN VARIETY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC ASPECTS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SURVIVALS)
Keywords:
American variety of the English language, survivals, Middle English, lexical level, diachrony
Abstract
The article deals with historical and sociolinguistic prerequisites of the development of American variety of the English language. Linguistic and extralinguistic factors which influenced essentially the American variety of the English language are analysed and illustrated. Survivals of the Middle English period have been studied and systematized from the viewpoint of comparative and contrastive approaches.
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Published
2018-03-27
Pages
62-65
Issue
Section
СЕКЦІЯ 1. ГЕРМАНСЬКІ МОВИ
