IF YOU can read this post, then Jan Terje Faarlund thinks you do. The researcher at the University of Oslo and his colleague Joseph Emonds of Palacky University in the Czech Republic have claimed that ...

LAST WEEK we looked at Jan Terje Faarlund's and Joseph Emonds's idea that "English is a Scandinavian language." (Please see the clarification at the end of the post.) They think that West Germanic Old ...

Swedes have the best non-native English skills in the world, according to the eighth edition of the EF English Proficiency Index. Sweden’s Scandinavian siblings Norway and Denmark also place in the ...

When junior Thea Fleming signed up for Scandinavian 3012, she wanted to continue learning Swedish, her minor. Instead, she also learned two additional languages – Danish and Norwegian. Scandinavian ...

While all of the Scandinavian languages have verb-second order in main clauses, they vary in the word order in subordinate clauses: in Icelandic the finite verb appears in a high position, to the left ...