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Language Contact and Vocabulary Enrichment

Scandinavian Elements in Middle English

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

The Scandinavian presence all over Europe during the so-called Viking Age is well documented and England is not an exception. However, the influence of their language on the development of English has not always been well interpreted. This volume aims at deciphering the reality behind the legend of a raiding heathen nation. By resorting to the evidence provided by language, the book explores and tries to reconstruct the social networks formed by both the English and Scandinavians. Their relations, needs and lives are inextricably intermingled with the hybrid tongue they adapted for communication and which has largely come down to us in what we know as English.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-631-62414-2 / 978-3631624142 / 9783631624142

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Erscheinungsdatum: 16.07.2012

Seiten: 173

Auflage: 1

Reihe herausgegeben von Jacek Fisiak
Autor(en): Isabel Moskowich

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