Download or read book English and Celtic in Contact written by Markku Filppula and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English and Celtic in Contact provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing work, it covers the earliest medieval contacts and their linguistic effects as well as the reflexes of later, early modern, and modern contacts.