English: The Language of the Vikings

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F14%3A33151931" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/14:33151931 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://anglistika.upol.cz/vikings2014" target="_blank" >http://anglistika.upol.cz/vikings2014</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

English: The Language of the Vikings

Original language description

The explanation argued for here is that the linguistic ancestor of Middle English (and therefore Modern English) is North Germanic, with large-scale borrowings from the Old English lexicon, rather than the other way around. Middle English in fact descended from Old Mainland Scandinavian, and the fusion of the two vocabularies dates back not to early Scandinavian settlement in England, but about two hundred years later, especially the 12th century, during the full impact of the Norman Conquest. We demonstrate that numerous grammatical properties (e.g., word order, preposition stranding, infinitival and directional particles, auxiliaries, infinitival constructions, participles, and case inflections) reflect a deep and typologically significant relation between Scandinavian and Middle/Modern English. With respect to all these characteristics, Middle/Modern English groups with North Germanic rather than with West Germanic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-80-244-4382-9

Number of pages

180

Publisher name

Univerzita Palackého

Place of publication

Olomouc

UT code for WoS book

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