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Old English and Danish: A Structural Comparison
Ambrožová, Alžběta ; Čermák, Jan (advisor) ; Fúsik, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to compare Present-Day Danish and Old English, classify them from the point of view of morphological typology, and discuss some of their basic linguistic features, taking the history of both languages into account. The focus of the thesis will be a comparison according to the typology of the Prague School: the text will be structured on the basis of a typological scheme by František Čermák. Old English was not so strongly influenced by Latin, and its relationship with other Germanic languages, including Danish, is therefore much more visible than in Present-Day English. Vocabulary is the most prominent feature that the two languages have in common. On the other hand, there are significant differences between them in terms of morphological typology. Compared to Present-Day English, Old English was significantly more inflected, while Present-Day Danish is primarily isolating with some agglutinative elements. The objective of the thesis is to discuss the historical context in which both languages developed and show some of the typical features that they share. In the analytical part, specific examples of typological features will be discussed, and on their basis the overall character of both languages and their similarities and differences will be evaluated.
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