IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1607: Lexical Borrowing in the Medieval North Sea Region
Thursday 8 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Nikolas Gunn, Department of English & Related Literature, University of York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Nikolas Gunn, Department of English & Related Literature, University of York |
| Paper 1607-a | Norse-Derived Terms in English: Identification and Spread (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 1607-b | Lexical Borrowing in Anglo-Scandinavian England: The Place-Name Evidence (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Onomastics |
| Paper 1607-c | Loan-Words and Grammatical Gender in the Peterborough Chronicle (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 1607-d | On the Adaptation of French Loans in Old Icelandic and the 'Picardian Hypothesis' (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Abstract | This session addresses lexical borrowing in the North Sea region in the Middle Ages. We showcase different approaches to the lexical material, encompassing a range of cultural and linguistic evidence, and addressing methodological tensions such as the interaction between structural, semantic, and sociolinguistic evidence. The case studies in this session span a range of different contexts and contact situations, from the onomastic evidence for Viking settlement in lowland Britain to the penetration of French loans into the Old Icelandic lexicon. |