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Language contact and development around the North Sea / edited by Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen, Inge Særheim.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 321.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 321
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languages in contact--North Sea Region.
- Languages in contact.
- Language acquisition--North Sea Region.
- Language acquisition.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Relative clauses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Language and languages--Variation.
- Language and languages.
- Germanic languages--Dialects.
- Germanic languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 toget
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The evidence of place names
- pt. 2. Code selection in written texts
- pt. 3. Linguistic developments and contact situations.
- Notes:
- "Most of the chapters in this volume were first presented at a conference on language and literacy in the North Sea area, held in August 2009 at the University of Stavanger, Norway."
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613592743
- 9781280497513
- 1280497513
- 9789027274663
- 9027274665
- OCLC:
- 784939687
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