[PDF] Old English The Scandinavian Influence On Old English eBook

Author : Kevin Theinl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 365601714X

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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Rostock, language: English, abstract: Structure: Part I - Textual Work on "Bede ́s Account of the Poet Cædmon" 1.Provement of the claim: For a precise classification of Old English 1 - 2 inflexional forms it does usually not suffice only to look at the respective form. 2.Formative relationship between OE lār and læran2 3.Word formation and Compounding2 - 3 Part II - Term paper: The Scandinavian Influence on Old English 1.Introduction3 - 4 2.Historical Background - Viking Invasion on the British Isle4 - 5 3.Language Family6 - 7 4.Loanwords, loan-blends, loan-shifts7 - 9 5.Norse-derived vocabulary10 - 11 6.Conclusion11 Bibliography12 Erklärung über die selbstständige Abfassung einer schriftlichen Arbeit Part I - Textual Work on "Bede ́s Account of the Poet Cædmon" 1.) It is unprofitable only to look at the respective form, because the -an declension of nouns contains five forms with the ending -an (Sg.a./g./d. - Pl.n./a.) Examples: guma - engl.: man (masc.)cyrice - engl.: church (fem.) Sg.n. gumacyrice Sg.a.gumancyrican Sg.g.gumancyrican Sg.d.gumancyrican Pl.n.gumancyrican Pl.a.gumancyrican Pl.g.gumenacyricena Pl.d.gumumcyricum Next I will specify case, number, gender, declensional/conjugational class, weak/strong inflexion of the following forms from the Cædmon text.

Author : Johannes Huhmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2008-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3638902382

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Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 71 von 80, University of Manchester (School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures), course: Introduction to Middle English Language, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the history of English, the language came into contact with different speech communities. Influences of Celtic, Latin, Scandinavian and French left their mark from the beginning in Anglo-Saxon times onwards, and the colonial expansion of the British Empire in the last three centuries resulted in the contact with even more speech communities. Through these language contacts, English changed a lot - it showed the tendency to incorporate foreign influences, especially lexical ones, more likely in the first place; its grammar changed from being and analytic one towards being synthetic; and in terms of the lexicon, it changed from being a Germanic to a partly Romanic influenced language. In this essay, I want to examine the influence of the Scandinavian language on English and to what extent it was responsible for the general changes mentioned above. 45 per cent of the commoner words and 25 per cent of the general lexis1 in the present day English lexicon are a result of the language contact between Old English and Old Norse during the period of Scandinavian invasions and settlement in the eighth and ninth century - but the lexical influences are only one result of the language contact and I will try to show the other effects the Scandinavian influence had on English as well. Abbreviations The Abbreviations I will use in this paper are "EME" for Early Middle English, "ModE" for Modern English, "ON" for Old Norse, "OE" for Old English and "PDE" for Present Day English.

Author : Kevin Theinl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3656017409

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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Rostock, language: English, abstract: Structure: Part I – Textual Work on “Bede ́s Account of the Poet Cædmon” 1. Provement of the claim: For a precise classification of Old English 1 - 2 inflexional forms it does usually not suffice only to look at the respective form. 2. Formative relationship between OE lār and læran 2 3. Word formation and Compounding 2 - 3 Part II – Term paper: The Scandinavian Influence on Old English 1. Introduction 3 - 4 2. Historical Background – Viking Invasion on the British Isle 4 - 5 3. Language Family 6 - 7 4. Loanwords, loan-blends, loan-shifts 7 - 9 5. Norse-derived vocabulary 10 - 11 6. Conclusion 11 Bibliography 12 Erklärung über die selbstständige Abfassung einer schriftlichen Arbeit Part I – Textual Work on “Bede ́s Account of the Poet Cædmon” 1.) It is unprofitable only to look at the respective form, because the –an declension of nouns contains five forms with the ending –an (Sg.a./g./d. - Pl.n./a.) Examples: guma – engl.: man (masc.) cyrice – engl.: church (fem.) Sg.n. guma cyrice Sg.a. guman cyrican Sg.g. guman cyrican Sg.d. guman cyrican Pl.n. guman cyrican Pl.a. guman cyrican Pl.g. gumena cyricena Pl.d. gumum cyricum Next I will specify case, number, gender, declensional/conjugational class, weak/strong inflexion of the following forms from the Cædmon text.

Author : Otto Möller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3668883289

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Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: This paper intends to give an insight into the processes that formed Old English under the influence of Old Norse. Noticeably, languages are constantly changing, but in the case of Old English the situation has been particular different from that of other languages. Old English came only into contact with other languages via invasion, raids or traders by ships that sailed to England. Furthermore, due to that fact that some of the Scandinavians finally settled on the island a long lasting language exchange was made possible. In addition to that this it is interesting to state that, again due to the isolation of the island, the impact of Old Norse could remain until today. The paper tries to answer the question: To which extent did Old Norse influence Old English? It provides information on the historical aspects: How did the two languages encounter and what syntactical, semantic, lexical, and loanword changes were introduced. The paper deals with the very rare topic of one language, changing another one’s grammar by language contact. Additionally,it tries to explain why certain words where introduced to English language and how the loss of inflection came about. Furthermore, it provides information on the particular circumstance in the case of Old English and Old Norse supported a vivid language contact.

Author : Matthew Townend
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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This is the first ever book-length study for the nature and significance of the linguistic contact between speakers of Old Norse and Old English in Viking Age England. It investigates in a wide-ranging and systematic fashion a foundational but under-considered factor in the history and culture of the Vikings in England. The subject is important for late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age history; for language and literature in the late Anglo-Saxon period; and for the history and development of the English language. The work's primary focus is on Anglo-Norse language contact, with a particular emphasis on the question of possible mutual intelligibility between speakers of the two languages; but since language contact is an emphatically sociolinguistic phenomenon, the work's methodology combines linguistic, literary and historical approaches, and draws for its evidence on texts in Old English, Old Norse and Anglo-Latin, and other forms of linguistic and onomastic material

Author : John H. McWhorter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781592403950

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Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, author McWhorter distills hundreds of years of lore i

Author : Dorothy Whitelock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107402212

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This 1930 volume contains the original texts of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries. They are of special interest for the light they cast on the connections of those who made the wills, and the ways in which the testators managed the disposition of their possessions.