2016/01/01 by Jan Terje Faarlund, Joseph Emonds · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Lexicography and Language Studies #Linguistics and language evolution #Linguistic Variation and Morphology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1163/22105832-00601002
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The present article is a summary of the book English: The Language of the Vikings by Joseph E. Emonds and Jan Terje Faarlund. The major claim of the book and of this article is that there are lexical and, above all, syntactic arguments in favor of considering Middle and Modern English as descending from the North Germanic language spoken by the Scandinavian population in the East and North of England prior to the Norman Conquest, rather than from the West Germanic Old English.