My first research interest was lexical borrowing into English, a topic that I still wish to return to. I do research on both ‘long 12th century’ loans and borrowings adopted in other periods, also keeping an eye on borrowing from English. Lexicography – historical or otherwise – is also an interest of mine.

Some publications and presentations:

  • Pons-Sanz, Sara M. & Janne Skaffari. 2023. Orrm’s French- and Norse-derived terms. Paper read at ICEHL-22, Sheffield.
  • Skaffari, Janne. 2001. They take both earls and thralls: Notes on Anglo-Saxon borrowing of Norse words. Paper read at the 10th Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists: Anglo-Saxons and the North, Helsinki.
  • Skaffari, Janne. 2002. The non-native vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle. In Lucas, P. J. & A. M. Lucas (eds.). Middle English from Tongue to Text. Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Middle English: Language and Text, held at Dublin, Ireland, 1–4 July 1999 (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 4). Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang, 235-246.
  • Skaffari, Janne. 2003. Lexical borrowings in early Middle English religious discourse: A case study of Sawles Warde. In Hiltunen, Risto & Janne Skaffari (eds.). Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to Modern (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 119). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 77-104.
  • Skaffari, Janne. 2009. Studies in Early Middle English Loanwords: Norse and French Influences (Anglicana Turkuensia, 26). Turku: University of Turku.
  • Skaffari, Janne. 2012. Bordering on loan: words from the long twelfth century. Paper read at Hel-Lex 3: New Approaches in English Historical Lexis, Helsinki/Tvärminne.
  • Skaffari, Janne. 2017. Language contact: French. In Brinton, Laurel  & Alexander Bergs (eds.). Middle English (Mouton Reader: The History of English, Vol. 3). Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 184-204.
  • Skaffari, Janne. 2020. Small Dictionaries and Curiosity: Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe (book review). Sociolinguistic Studies 14:1-2, 235-237.