Language contact in the British Isles
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Language contact in the British Isles

Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1988

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Language contact in the British Isles

Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1988

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783484302389
eBook ISBN
9783111678658
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

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