Language contact in the British Isles : : Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1988 / / ed. by George Broderick, Per Sture Ureland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Baoill, Dónall P. Ó,; Barnes, Michael P.,; Broderick, George,; Clark, Cecily,; Cox, Richard A. V.,; Fellows-Jensen, Gillian,; Filppula, Markku,; Gelling, Margaret,; Harvey, Anthony,; Hines, John,; Kirk, John M.,; Kisbye, Torben,; Lazar-Meyn, Heidi Ann,; MacKinnon, Kenneth,; Melchers, Gunnel,; Nielsen, Hans F.,; Odlin, Terence,; Poussa, Patricia,; Sandred, Karl Inge,; Stenson, Nancy,; Thomson, Robert L.,; Ureland, P. Sture,; Wakelin, Martyn,; Werner, Otmar,; Ó Sé, Diarmuid,
• HerausgeberIn: Broderick, George,; Ureland, Per Sture,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2011]; Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [1991]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2011; 1991
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 238
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (717 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

I-XII -- Programme of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Douglas, Isle of Man -- List of the authors’ addresses -- Introduction -- A. CONTACTS IN THE ISLE OF MAN -- MANX – LATIN – OLD NORSE – OLD FRENCH – ENGLISH -- 1. The decline and death of Manx Gaelic -- 2. Foreign elements in the Manx vocabulary -- 3. The place-names of the Isle of Man -- 4. Prosodic change in Manx and lexical diffusion -- B. WALES -- OLD WELSH – OLD IRISH – LATIN -- 5. The Cambridge Juvencus Glosses – Evidence of Hiberno-Welsh literary interaction? -- C. CORNWALL -- CORNISH – ENGLISH -- 6. The Cornishness of Cornwall’s English -- D. PAN-CELTIC – ENGLISH -- 7. The Colour systems of the modern Celtic languages – Effects of language contact -- E. CONTINENTAL CONTACTS -- CONTINENTAL GERMANIC – OLD ENGLISH -- 8. The Straubing Heliand-Fragment and the Old English dialects -- ANGLO-NORMAN – MIDDLE ENGLISH -- 9. Towards a reassessment of “Anglo-Norman influence on English place-names” -- F. CONTACTS IN ENGLAND -- BRITTONIC – OLD ENGLISH -- 10. Origins of the non-standard relativizers WHAT and AS in English -- OLD SCANDINAVIAN – OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH -- 11. The study of Scandinavian in England: A survey of Swedish contributions including ongoing research in East Anglia -- 12. Scandinavian influence on the place-names of England -- 13. Compatibility and incompatibility – three important periods of English-Danish onomastic contact -- 14. The incorporation of Old Norse pronouns into Middle English. Suppletion by Ioan -- 15. Scandinavian English: a creole in context -- G. ORKNEY AND SHETLAND -- NORN – SCOTS -- 16. Reflections on the structure and the demise of Orkney and Shetland Norn -- 17. Norn-Scots: a complicated language contact situation in Shetland -- Η. THE WESTERN ISLES (HEBRIDES) AND SKYE -- GAELIC – OLD NORSE -- 18. Norse-Gaelic contact in the west of Lewis: the place-name evidence -- SCOTS GAELIC – SCOTS – (STANDARD) ENGLISH -- 19. Language-maintenance and viability in contemporary Gaelic communities: Skye and the Western Isles today -- I. SCOTLAND (MAINLAND) -- SCOTS – (STANDARD) ENGLISH -- 20. Language contact and Scots -- J. IRELAND -- IRISH – ENGLISH -- 21. Code-switching vs. borrowing in Modern Irish -- 22. Contact phenomena in the phonology of Irish and English in Ireland -- 23. Syntactic variation in Hiberno-English -- 24. Subordinating and in Hiberno-English syntax: Irish or English origin? -- 25. Bilingualism and writing in the Irish Gaeltacht and the Grisons (Switzerland) with special reference to Irish and English -- Index -- Index of personal names -- Index of languages