WEEK 3
- Discussion of last week's assignment: how the three handbooks
differ in presenting the Scandinavian influence on English.
- Lexical borrowings from Scandinavian and what they tell us about
the
relationship between the two groups. Here you can find Otto
Jespersen's
presentation of the Scandinavian influence on English. It contains the
passage by Caxton we saw in class (p. 68). If you are interested, the
whole book can be freely downloaded at: https://archive.org/details/growthstructureoesp00jrich
- Influence of Scandinavian on grammar: the creolization
hypothesis.
Limits of the creolization hypothesis. You can find a brief
(non-exhaustive) summary of the debate here.
- The variety of Scandinavian spoken in the Danelaw: how one can
reconstruct it.
ASSIGNMENT:
Compare
Emonds and
Faarlund's Introduction and Chapter 1 with the three handbooks you
have already browsed. The task is made easier by the fact that
sometimes Emonds and Faarlund quote precisely those handbooks. Chapter
2 deals with the lexicon (and is relatively short), you are encouraged
to have a look at it as well.
Emonds and Faarlund's book is available at:
http://old.anglistika.upol.cz/fileadmin/kaa/emonds/vikings2014.pdf