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WEAK AND STRONG ADJECTIVES IN OLD NORSE: AN EXAMINATION OF KONUNGS SKUGGSJÁ [PDF]

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023
All early Germanic languages distinguish between a weak and a strong adjectival declension. This contrast is traditionally described in terms of definiteness, the strong declension expressing indefinite reference and the weak one definite reference. Such
Terje WAGENER
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What Did(n’t) Happen to English?: A Re-evaluation of Some Contact Explanations in Early English

SELIM, 2023
McWhorter (2002) argued that contact with Norse caused simplifications in English grammar that set English apart from other Germanic languages. This paper focuses on one of the losses McWhorter attributed to the linguistic impact of the Scandinavian ...
Cynthia L. Allen
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Scandinavian Studies in Germany

Humanities, 2022
Scandinavian Studies in Germany are usually conceived of as comparative literary and cultural studies, encompassing the historical and current spaces where Northern Germanic languages were or are spoken.
Roland Scheel
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Etymology and Comparative Phonology of North Germanic Personal Names in the Primary Chronicle [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2017
The paper presents comparative analysis of the names of North Germanic origin in the Primary Chronicle. In Section 1, the author analyses the spelling of the names of the ambassadors who participated in the conclusion of the Treaty of Prince Igor with ...
Sergey L. Nikolaev
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English relative clauses in a cross-Germanic perspective

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020
The article talk examines the distribution of relativising strategies in English in a cross-Germanic perspective, arguing that English is quite unique among Germanic languages both regarding the number of available options and their distribution.
Julia Bacskai-Atkari
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Limits on P: filling in holes vs. falling in holes

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
All Germanic languages make extensive use of verb-particle combinations (known as separable-prefix verbs in the OV languages). I show some basic differences here distinguishing the Scandinavian type from the OV West Germanic languages, with English ...
Peter Svenonius
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Etnolingvistiniai santykiai priešistorinėje Šiaurės rytų Europoje

Baltistica, 2011
ETHNOLINGUISTIC  SITUATION IN THE PREHISTORIC NORTH-EAST  EUROPESummaryThe hitherto known facts allow to state that in the period between the disintegration of Indo-European community and the expansion of Mongolian-Turkic peoples four groups of langua ...
Leszek Bednarczuk
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Stéfan Einarsson, STUDIES IN GERMANIC PHILOLOGY, edited by Anatoly Li­bermann, Helmut Buske Verlag Hamburg 1986.

Linguistica, 1987
This is a miscellany of 12 articles selected from such periodicals as The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Language, Arkiv för nordisk filologi, PMLA, Budkavlen etc, issued between 1932 and 1964. The editor A.
Dora Maček
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Low German influence on the Scandinavian languages in late medieval times – some comments on loan words, word-forming, syntactic structures and names

AmS-Skrifter, 2020
There was a strong influence from the Low German language on the languages in Scandinavia in late medieval times due to the considerable economical and cultural contact and interaction between northern Germany and the Scandinavian countries in this period, especially the Hanse trade.
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Etnografiske tilnærminger til andrespråksforskning

NOA, 2021
Denne artikkelen gir en oversikt over etnografiske forskningsmetoder med relevans for andrespråkslæring i og utenfor klasserommet. Etnografiske metoder kan belyse mange spørsmål om andrespråkslæring, enten som overordnet metodologi eller i kombinasjon ...
Ingrid Rodrick Beiler, Haley De Korne, Joke Dewilde   +2 more
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