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The lexical effects of Anglo-Scandinavian linguistic contact on old English

At nearly 600 pages, this book brings together multiple areas of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and textual analysis. Based on research conducted over seven years, it reconsiders the extant (phonological, morphological, dialectal, cultural and textual) evidence for the identification as Norse-derived of approximately 350 terms recorded in over 300 texts, and the integration of the loans into their respective lexico-semantic fields (both in Old English as a whole and in connection with particular texts) by analysing, among other issues, the terms' chronological and dialectal distribution, and the semantic and stylistic relationships that they have with their native near-synonyms.