North Germanic Morphosyntax of Modern English

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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This book argues that Middle English - and hence Modern English - is a direct descendent of Anglo Norse, the language of Viking settlers who invaded and ruled the north and east of England (the so-called Danelaw) for about 200 years preceding the Norman conquest.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-04
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt483 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor252
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031641664

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Joseph Emonds is Professor of English at Palacky University, Czechia. He has previously held teaching and research posts in the USA, France, the Netherlands, the UK, Japan, Austria and Spain. His publications focus on topics including generative grammar, syntax, phonology, and language change.Jan Terje Faarlund is Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway. His main fields of research are syntactic theory and change. He is elected member of The Philological Society, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters.

Chapter One: The Germanic Language Family in England.- Chapter Two: The Middle English Lexicon: Cultural Integration Creates Anglicized Norse.- Chapter Three: Norse Properties of Middle English Lacking in Old English.- Chapter Four: Split Infinitives and the Category of to.- Chapter Five: Morphosyntactic Properties of Old English Lacking in Old Scandinavian and Middle English.- Chapter Six: Innovations Shared between English and Mainland Scandinavian.- Chapter Seven: The Hybrid Grammatical Lexicon of Middle English.- Chapter Eight: The Sparse Inflection of Middle and Modern English.- Chapter Nine: Phonological Indicators of a Norse Source for Middle English.- Chapter Ten: The Immigrants’ Language Lives On.