Pons-Sanz, Sara M. 2013: The Lexical Eff ects of Anglo-Scandinavian Linguistic Contact on Old English
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: T he study of the Scandinavian element in Old English vocabulary has traditionally been considered unimportant, mainly because Norse-derived terms are scarce in Old English texts (see, for example, Björkman 1900: § 2), and also because they tend to represent the most typical types of borrowings, i.e., technical words directly associated with the culture of the source language speakers.Alistair Campbell put it this way in his infl uential work on the grammar of Old English (1959: § 566):The great infl ux of Scandinavian words into OE caused by the Norse settlements in England is not fully refl ected in OE texts, and the development of these words is mainly a branch of ME studies.The Scandinavian loan-words recorded in OE texts are mainly ones for ideas, persons, or things, which were either peculiarly Scandinavian, or of which the OE conception had been modifi ed by contact with the Scandinavian civilization.
Author: RJ Pascual
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3133336816