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Description:"Traditional sources often attribute the many syntactic discrepancies between OE and ME to English being hardly written in the 12th c., under the Norman Conquest. However, so many grammatical changes, all in one typological direction and all essentially within a century, are not attested in other similar situations of diachronic change. Moreover, the traditional view has usually ascribed these two dozen changes to “language contact” of OE with Scandinavian. But if Old Norse died out in the 12th c. there was no real intermingling outside the Danelaw of OE and Scandinavian speakers. Thus, the traditional accounts provide no plausible scenario for the transition from Old to Middle English. This book does: the southern population, no doubt after a period of bilingualism, simply switched from OE to Anglicized Norse. By 1300 the change was essentially complete; the language of England was North Germanic." -- excerpt from publisher's blurbWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with English: The Language of the Vikings. To get started finding English: The Language of the Vikings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 180

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Department of English and American Studies, Palacky University, Olomouc

Release: 2015

ISBN: 8024443821

Description: "Traditional sources often attribute the many syntactic discrepancies between OE and ME to English being hardly written in the 12th c., under the Norman Conquest. However, so many grammatical changes, all in one typological direction and all essentially within a century, are not attested in other similar situations of diachronic change. Moreover, the traditional view has usually ascribed these two dozen changes to “language contact” of OE with Scandinavian. But if Old Norse died out in the 12th c. there was no real intermingling outside the Danelaw of OE and Scandinavian speakers. Thus, the traditional accounts provide no plausible scenario for the transition from Old to Middle English. This book does: the southern population, no doubt after a period of bilingualism, simply switched from OE to Anglicized Norse. By 1300 the change was essentially complete; the language of England was North Germanic." -- excerpt from publisher's blurbWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with English: The Language of the Vikings. To get started finding English: The Language of the Vikings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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