Scandinavian Loan-Words in Middle English

Scandinavian Loan-Words in Middle English
Title Scandinavian Loan-Words in Middle English PDF eBook
Author Erik Björkman
Publisher Ardent Media
Pages 368
Release 1969
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Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English

Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English
Title Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English PDF eBook
Author Erik Björkman
Publisher
Pages 206
Release 1900
Genre English language
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Borrowed Words

Borrowed Words
Title Borrowed Words PDF eBook
Author Philip Durkin
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 512
Release 2014
Genre History
ISBN 0199574995

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This book shows how, when, and why English took words from other languages and explains how to find their origins and reasons for adoption. It covers the effects of contact with languages ranging from Latin and French to Yiddish, Chinese, and Maori, from Saxon times to the present. It will appeal to everyone interested in the history of English.

Scandinavian Loanwords and Their Equivalents in Middle English

Scandinavian Loanwords and Their Equivalents in Middle English
Title Scandinavian Loanwords and Their Equivalents in Middle English PDF eBook
Author Sibylle Hug
Publisher Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Pages 456
Release 1987
Genre English language
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An investigation of the rivalry of a number of Scandinavian loanwords which entered the English language in late Old English or Middle English and survived in Modern English, and their synonyms in Middle English. It analyses the restructuring process taking place in a number of semantic fields and attempts to account for the survival of the loanwords. Of particular interest are the meaning, frequency and distribution of the Scandinavian borrowings and their equivalents.

Words Derived from Old Norse in Early Middle English

Words Derived from Old Norse in Early Middle English
Title Words Derived from Old Norse in Early Middle English PDF eBook
Author Richard Dance
Publisher Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Pages 576
Release 2003
Genre Foreign Language Study
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"The influence exerted upon English vocabulary by words that derive from the Scandinavian languages is widespread and profound. These words entered English by Norse speakers in the Anglo-Saxon period, and they claim amongst their number some of the most frequent and important items of everyday modern usage. There nevertheless remains a great deal about this element that we do not properly understand. This book presents etymological and contextual studies of the lexical terms originally derived from Old Norse that are found in the principal early Middle English texts from the South-West Midlands. This is a region that contains some of the most celebrated literary works of the period when Norse-derived words first appear in significant numbers in written English (the late twelfth to the later thirteenth century); being outside the area of the Danelaw, it also presents crucial opportunities for us to understand the transmission of Norse-derived vocabulary to parts of England beyond those of the heaviest initial Scandinavian settlement. This book will be of interest to scholars of early English lexicology, semantics and dialectology, to those studying the background to and linguistic resources of early Middle English literature, and to all those fascinated by the Scandinavian contribution to the history of the English language." --

Analysis of the Scandinavian Loanwords in the Aldredian Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels

Analysis of the Scandinavian Loanwords in the Aldredian Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels
Title Analysis of the Scandinavian Loanwords in the Aldredian Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels PDF eBook
Author Sara M. Pons Sanz
Publisher Universitat de València
Pages 150
Release 2000
Genre Altenglisch
ISBN 9788437047072

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The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry

The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry
Title The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry PDF eBook
Author G.A. Lester
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 189
Release 1996-04-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1349245615

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This book gives a linguistic overview of the first eight centuries of English poetry - years which produced such key works as Beowulf, Layaman's Brut and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It begins with chapters on the social and literary context, before turning in more detail to subjects such as poetic diction, rhymed and alliterative verse, borrowed words, recurrent phrases, rhetoric and linguistic variety. Aimed at the beginning student and general reader, the book seeks to enhance appreciation and enjoyment by making the linguistic resources of the poets better understood.