Language Contact and Development around the North Sea

Editors

Merja Stenroos

| University of Stavanger

Martti Mäkinen

| Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki

Inge Særheim

| University of Stavanger

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This volume brings together eleven studies on the history of language and writing in the North Sea area, with focus on contacts and interchanges through time. Its range spans from the investigation of pre-Germanic place-names to present-day Shetland; the materials studied include glosses, legal and trade documents as well as place names and modern dialects. The volume is unique in its combination of linguistics and place-name studies with literacy studies, which allows for a very dynamic picture of the history of language contact and texts in the North Sea area. Different approaches come together to illuminate a major insight: the omnipresence of multilingualism as a context for language development and a formative characteristic of literacy. Among the contributors are experts on English, Nordic and German language history. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students working on the history of Northern European languages, literacy studies and language contact

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 321] 2012. xvi, 235 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.321

Table of Contents

Preface & Acknowledgments	vii–viii
Editors’ introduction	ix–xvi
Part I. The evidence of place-names
Celts in Scandinavian Scotland and Anglo-Saxon England: Place-names and language contact reconsidered Carole Hough	1–22
The colonisation of England by Germanic tribes on the basis of place-names Jürgen Udolph	23–52
Ancient toponyms in south-west Norway: Origin and formation Inge Særheim	53–66
Part II. Code selection in written texts
On vernacular literacy in late medieval Norway Jan Ragnar Hagland	67–80
Four languages, one text type: The neighbours’ books of Bryggen 1529–1936 Agnete Nesse	81–98
On variation and change in London medieval mixed-language business documents Laura Wright	99–116
Part III. Linguistic developments and contact situations
Old English–Late British language contact and the English progressive Kristin Killie	117–140
The Old English origins of the Northern Subject Rule: Evidence from the Lindisfarne gloss to the Gospels of John and Mark Marcelle Cole	141–168
For Heaven’s sake: The Scandinavian contribution to a semantic field in Old and Middle English Claudia DiSciacca	169–192
North Sea timber trade terminology in the Early Modern period: The cargo inventory for the White Lamb revisited Marjorie Lorvik	193–212
‘Nornomania’ in the research on language in the Northern Isles Gunnel Melchers	213–230
Index of subjects, terms & languages	231–236

“The volume is a valuable contribution to ongoing research into language contact and multilingualism in northern Europe. Many connections can be drawn between the different articles and sections of the volume. Scholars with special interests in the early Anglo-Saxon period, Celtic contacts, or Scandinavian influences on Northern English and Scots will find much of interest here.”

Stephen Laker, in Journal of English and Germanic Philosophy 112:3 (July 2013)

“Es handelt sich alles in allem gesehen um einen gelungenen und sehr lesenswerten Sammelband mit guten und z.T. auch zukunftsweisenden Beiträgen zum Thema Kommunikation und Schriftlichkeit im mittelalterlichen Nordseeraum.”

Kurt Braunmüller, Institut für Germanistik I, Hamburg, in NOWELE Vol. 67:2 (2014)

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Subjects

Linguistics

Germanic linguistics

Historical linguistics

English linguistics

BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2012002090 | Marc record