Abstract This paper offers an overview of current research into the contact between English and Celtic, both in its historical and geographical dimensions. It attempts to classify contact scenarios by their type and the linguistic effects they engender. A number of examples are discussed which illustrate typical contact effects, and generalizations are made about contact-induced language change which can be taken to apply to further cases of language contact beyond the anglophone world.

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英语和凯尔特语：接触导致的历史变化

摘要本文概述了英语和凯尔特人之间在历史和地理方面的联系的最新研究。它试图根据接触情景的类型和所产生的语言效果对其进行分类。讨论了许多示例，这些示例说明了典型的接触效果，并对接触引起的语言更改进行了概括，可以将其应用于英语世界之外的其他语言接触情况。