Saami Linguistics
Saami Linguistics

Author: Ida Toivonen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9789027248039

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The papers in this volume describe and analyze an array of intriguing linguistic phenomena as they occur in the Saami languages, ranging from etymological nativization of loanwords to the formation of deadjectival and denominal verbs. Saami displays a number of characteristics that are unusual from a cross-linguistic perspective, including partial agreement on verbs, a three-way quantity distinction in consonants and spectacular consonant gradation. The eight papers presented here approach these and other issues from diverse theoretical perspectives in morphology, phonology, and syntax. The volume includes an extensive research bibliography which will be helpful for anyone interested in Saami linguistics.

New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics
New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics

Author: Martin Hilpert

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 3110267934

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This book offers a survey of current work in Nordic and General Linguistics, with a special focus on language contact. The papers in this book were presented at the 11th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics (ICNGL) in Freiburg. The ICNGL conference series aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas on Scandinavian and other languages, between researchers from the Nordic countries and elsewhere. The present volume focuses on language contact, which has always been a topic of great interest in Nordic Linguistics. Additionally, the contributions in this book address issues of phonology, morpho-syntax, syntax, and grammaticalization. The book is meant to be a snapshot of Nordic Linguistics as it is practiced today, reflecting at the same time its established research traditions as well as its forages into new methodologies and theories.

Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik.
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik.

Author: Erika Langbroek

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9401207003

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InhaltFrederik Kortlandt: The Origin of the Vestjysk St(c)dHarry Perridon: How old is the Vestjysk St(c)dWolfgang Beck: Neues zur Runeninschrift auf dem Goldbrakteaten Schonen II CDietrich Schrr: Zu Z. 50 des HiltibrantliedesValentine A. Pakis: The Literary Status of Muspilli in the History of Scholarship: Two Peculiar TrendsKenny Louwen: Zur Lesart und Hybriditnt der altniederlnndischen FederprobeJeremy Bergerson: Observations on a, o in unstressed Syllables in Middle DutchLudo Jongen: The Emperor, the Saint and the Poet. For whom did Heinrich von Veldeke write the Sint-Servaaslegende?Martin Baisch: Gahmuret und Belakane. Textkritik und InterpretationAndreas Wutz: Der doppelte Loys - ein Vergleich der KAnigsgestalt in Wolframs von Eschenbach Willehalm mit der altfranzAsischen Vorlage AliscansAlbrecht Classen: Objects of Memory as Hermeneutic Media in Medieval German Literature. Hartmann von Aues Gregorius, Wolfram von Eschenbachs Parzival, Thring von Ringoltingens Melusine, and FortunatusRasma Lazda-Cazers: Landscape as Other in the Livlnndische ReimchronikEdward G. Fichtner: The Trojanerkrieg and the Composition of Ulrich Fetrers Buch der AbenteuerRianne Mus: 'Ik han mynen heren sen, des mach ik wol der warheyt gen. Die 'Thomasszene im Wienhnuser OsterspielfragmentEllen Baler und Ernst Hellgardt: Die Freckenhorster Heberolle - eine Fnlschung? (Verbesserte Fassung)"

Loanwords in the World's Languages
Loanwords in the World's Languages

Author: Martin Haspelmath

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 1104

ISBN-13: 3110218437

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"This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.

Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages
Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages

Author: Peter Schrijver

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1134254482

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History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the Germanic languages as a history of its speakers. It focuses on the role that language contact has played in creating the Germanic languages, between the first millennium BC and the crucially important early medieval period. Chapters on the origins of English, German, Dutch, and the Germanic language family as a whole illustrate how the history of the sounds of these languages provide a key that unlocks the secret of their genesis: speakers of Latin, Celtic and Balto-Finnic switched to speaking Germanic and in the process introduced a 'foreign accent' that caught on and spread at the expense of types of Germanic that were not affected by foreign influence. The book is aimed at linguists, historians, archaeologists and anyone who is interested in what languages can tell us about the origins of their speakers.

Norsemen in the Viking Age
Norsemen in the Viking Age

Author: Eric Christiansen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0470692766

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This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived. Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories. Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these peoples. Illustrated by reference to runic, poetic and archaeological evidence.

The Nordic Languages
The Nordic Languages

Author: Oskar Bandle

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1086

ISBN-13: 3110148765

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The handbook is not tied to a particular methodology but keeps in principle to a pronounced methodological pluralism, encompassing all aspects of actual methodology. Moreover it combines diachronic with synchronic-systematic aspects, longitudinal sections with cross-sections (periods such as Old Norse, transition from Old Norse to Early Modern Nordic, Early Modern Nordic 1550-1800 and so on). The description of Nordic language history is built upon a comprehensive collection of linguistic data; it consists of more than 200 articles written by a multitude of authors from Scandinavian and German and English speaking countries. The organization of the book combines a central part on the detailed chronological developments and some chapters of a more general character: chapters on theory and methodology in the beginning and on overlapping spatio-temporal topics in the end.