Claudia DiSciacca
List of John Benjamins publications in which Claudia DiSciacca is involved.
Article
2012 For Heaven’s sake: The Scandinavian contribution to a semantic field in Old and Middle English Language Contact and Development around the North Sea, Stenroos, Merja, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim (eds.), pp. 169–192 | Article
This chapter deals with the Scandinavian loanwords sky and loft and their role in the configuration of the semantic field concerning “sky”, “air”, and “cloud” during the transition between Old and Middle English. It outlines the etymology and Germanic cognates of the two words and explores the… read more
