Katarzyna Buczek

University of Opole, Poland

Katarzyna Buczek studied at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Institute of English Studies, where she was awarded a doctoral degree. Her research interests include historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, minority languages. She has published mainly on the history of English and Frisian with the focus on lexis, morphology and phonology. She is a Vice­Chair of the Committee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch. She is employed at the University of Opole.
Texts in the following books published by Æsh

Mostly Medieval: In Memory of Jacek Fisiak

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Articles in Æsh publications:

(2020) “For and against Anglo-Frisian: the linguistic debate on the matter.” [In:] Hans Sauer, Piotr P. Chruszczewski (eds.) Mostly Medieval: In Memory of Jacek Fisiak. San Diego, CA: Æ Academic Publishing; 245‒274.

The relationship between Old English and Old Frisian, and the possible existence of their Anglo-Frisian proto-language, has been the subject of scholarly investigation for a long time. For those who accept the traditional comparative method for detecting the genetic relationships between languages, both Old English and Old Frisian arose due to some regular language changes from a common Anglo-Frisian ancestor. Nevertheless, the notion of Anglo-Frisian is not regarded as self-evident by all linguists. The primary aim of this paper is to investigate the existing arguments for and against the Anglo-Frisian hypothesis. Firstly, it will be the purpose of the paper to outline various linguistic approaches to the investigation of Anglo-Frisian relations, which have appeared since the late medieval times. The second part of the article will be devoted to the analysis of morphological and phonological innovations of Old English and Old Frisian and the presentation of possible interpretations of these innovative changes. In the third part of the paper, the notion of common Anglo-Frisian runic innovations will be presented simultaneously with the possible distribution of Anglo-Frisian runes based on the archaeological findings.