The Immigrants’ Language Lives On
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64167-1_10" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64167-1_10</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64167-1_10" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-64167-1_10</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Immigrants’ Language Lives On
Original language description
This chapter addresses the sociolinguistic implications of Norse replacing Old English as the dominant language in medieval England. It argues that the Scandinavian settlers in the Danelaw held greater economic and social prestige, leading children to adopt Norse grammar while blending Old English and Norse vocabulary. The chapter draws parallels to Labov’s work on dialect prestige and suggests that the linguistic shift was not a matter of borrowing but a full language replacement. The conclusion is that Middle English was fundamentally a North Germanic language rather than a continuation of Old English.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The North Germanic Morphosyntax of Modern English
ISBN
978-3-031-64166-4
Number of pages of the result
7
Pages from-to
201-207
Number of pages of the book
252
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham, Switzerland
UT code for WoS chapter
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