So far, no comprehensive study of the obsolescence of Scandinavian loanwords in English has ever been published. This book remedies that situation, and presents

This book is a rigorous and broad update of the state of the art in the investigation of Old and Middle English. The volume, written by some of the best known e

In this fascinating history of the influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation the author shows when and why the Anglo-Saxons began t

The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Cel

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2