nam a22 c 4500 cilt.321/510010382 nljbp 250625032401.8 cr ||||||||||| 241221s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2012002090 9789027274663 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P130.52.N67 306.44/0948 23 CFF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Language Contact and Development around the North Sea Edited by Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (xvi, 235 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 0304-0763 321 Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface & Acknowledgments -- Editors’ introduction -- Celts in Scandinavian Scotland and Anglo-Saxon England / Carole Hough -- The colonisation of England by Germanic tribes on the basis of place-names / Jürgen Udolph -- Ancient toponyms in south-west Norway / Inge Særheim -- On vernacular literacy in late medieval Norway / Jan Ragnar Hagland -- Four languages, one text type / Agnete Nesse -- On variation and change in London medieval mixed-language business documents / Laura Wright -- Old English–Late British language contact and the English progressive / Kristin Killie -- The Old English origins of the Northern Subject Rule / Marcelle Cole -- For Heaven’s sake / Claudia DiSciacca -- North Sea timber trade terminology in the Early Modern period / Marjorie Lorvik -- ‘Nornomania’ in the research on language in the Northern Isles / Gunnel Melchers 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 Provided by publisher. English linguistics Germanic linguistics Historical linguistics Stenroos, Merja editor Mäkinen, Martti editor Særheim, Inge editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027248398 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.321 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274663