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Title: Language Contact and Vocabulary Enrichment
Author : Isabel Moskowich
Release Date : January 16, 2012
Genre: Foreign Languages,Books,Reference,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1324 KB

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The Scandinavian presence all over Europe during the so-called Viking Age is well documented and England is not an exception. However, the influence of their language on the development of English has not always been well interpreted. This volume aims at deciphering the reality behind the legend of a raiding heathen nation. By resorting to the evidence provided by language, the book explores and tries to reconstruct the social networks formed by both the English and Scandinavians. Their relations, needs and lives are inextricably intermingled with the hybrid tongue they adapted for communication and which has largely come down to us in what we know as English.