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Quality over quantity: a diachronic approach to the influence of old norse on the english language

Authors: Damas Quiles, Rafael;

Quality over quantity: a diachronic approach to the influence of old norse on the english language

Abstract

Este proyecto pretende explicar el enorme impacto que ha tenido el nórdico antiguo en la lengua inglesa, de carácter más cualitativo que cuantitativo. Dicha influencia es tratada centrándonos primeramente en un contexto histórico y sociocultural que, dividido en diferentes periodos, resultan indispensables para las bases de dicho contacto, tanto lingüístico como cultural, entre ambas sociedades con el paso del tiempo. En lo lingüístico, las características generales de las lenguas germánicas se abarcan desde diferentes planos, principalmente fonético y morfosintáctico . De la misma manera, a dicho análisis le sigue un estudio comparativo entre el nórdico antiguo y el inglés antiguo como lenguas coetáneas, en el que se resalten tanto similitudes como diferencias. Finalmente, la influencia del nórdico antiguo se analiza teniendo en especial consideración aspectos morfosintácticos y léxicos, es decir, aquellas áreas donde ambas lenguas germánicas se aproximan en mayor medida. Así pues, todo ello nos ha permitido indagar en numerosos elementos con la misma procedencia o con un origen dispar, y mucho de los cuales, en cualquiera de los cases, aún permanecen bien arraigados en los usos frecuentes del inglés actual.

This dissertation is aimed at explaining the enormous impact of Old Norse on the English language, more prominent in quality than in quantity. Such influence is firstly dealt by focusing on the historical and sociocultural context, which, split into different periods, becomes of paramount importance in arder to grasp the essence of such contact, both linguistic and cultural, between both societies throughout the centuries. Linguistically, general features of the Germanic group of languages are approached from different perspectives, mainly from the phonetical and morphosyntactic ones. Likewise, such analysis is followed by a comparative one between Old Norse and Old English as coexisting languages, thus enabling similarities and differences between both of them to cometo the fore. Finally, the Old Norse influence is covered by taking into special account morphosyntactic and lexical elements, this is, those areas where both Germanic languages have come closer to each other. Ther,efore, this has allowed us to delve into those numerous items stemming either from the same or dissimilar sources, most of which, whatever the case, being still substantially present in the everyday uses of today's English.

Keywords

5702.01, Lingüística histórica, 5702.02, lingüística descriptiva inglesa English Linguistics, Lexicología, Etymology, 5702.04, Lexicology, Historical linguistics, Etimología

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