Of which West Germanic language was Craig Seymour a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth?
English language English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global "lingua franca". Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea. It is closely related to the Frisian languages, but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic language), as well as by Latin and Romance languages, particularly French.
Sandra Chung Sandra (Sandy) Chung is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a past president of the Linguistic Society of America. She earned her A.B. and Ph.D. at Harvard University, where her dissertation was on the comparative syntax of Polynesian languages. At UC Santa Cruz, she served as chair of the Linguistics Department (1994–97, 2013-16), chair of the Philosophy Department (2002–04), and Faculty Assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor (2004–11).