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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (717 p.) :; Num. figs.
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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