WEEK 2

• Discussion of the previous week's assignment: how the three handbooks differ in presenting foreign influences on English.
  

• How to individuate and date a loanword: the role of sound correspondences.

• Different types of statements in a scientific work: facts, inferences, (empirical) hypotheses, speculations (you can find here the slides presented in class).
  

ASSIGNMENT:

In a book published in 2014, English: The Language of the Vikings, Joseph Embley Emonds and Jan Terje Faarlund propose that Middle English is the continuation of some variety of Scandinavian spoken in the Danelaw, and not of Old English (the book is available at: http://old.anglistika.upol.cz/fileadmin/kaa/emonds/vikings2014.pdf .

Read pages 17-30 and 47-58 from Emonds and Faarlund (2014).
Highlight all the facts presented by the authors in those pages.
Does the work present new facts?