| Description |
1 online resource (566 p.) |
| Series |
Linguistische Arbeiten ; 359 |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface / Ureland, Per Sture -- Acknowledgements / Ahlqvist, Anders / Clarkson, Iain / Ureland, Per Sture -- Opening of the SLE conference in Galway, August 29, 1992 / Eoin, Gearoid Mac -- Introduction / Ureland, P. Sture -- I. PRE-COLUMBIAN CONTACTS -- A. OLD NORSE IN THE FAROES -- Old Norse in the Faroes (with special reference to palatalization) / Werner, Otmar -- B. OLD NORSE IN SCOTLAND AND NORN IN SHETLAND -- Historical and linguistic evidence for Gall-Gaidheil and Norse in Western Scotland / Jennings, Andrew -- On the use of "be" as a perfective auxiliary in modern Shetland dialect: hybridization and syntactic change / Pavlenko, Alexander -- C. OLD NORSE IN IRELAND -- Old Norse in Ireland / Schulze-Thulin, Britta -- D. OLD NORSE IN ICELAND -- Language contact in Iceland: the evidence of names / Fellows-Jensen, Gillian -- E. GREENLAND -- European contacts with Greenland as reflected in the place-names / Kleivan, Inge -- II. POST-COLUMBIAN CONTACTS -- A. SCANDINAVIAN CONTACTS - EMIGRATION HISTORY -- Swedish exodus - from Sillgatan in Gothenburg to America / Ljungmark, Lars -- The Swedish Emigrant Institute and the documentation of the transatlantic emigration era / Beijbom, Ulf -- Five decades of research on Swedish emigration to North America / Blanck, Dag -- Β. SWEDISH- AMERICAN ENGLISH -- Linkers, fillers, tags and flags - code-switching of conjunctions and conversational signals among American Swedes / Klintborg, Staffan -- C. SWEDISH - SPANISH IN ARGENTINA -- Immigrant Swedish in Misiones, Argentina - towards language loss / Flodell, Gunvor -- D. NORWEGIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- The Norwegian immigrants of the late 18th century and the problem of the so-called 'great melting pot' in America / Larsen, Marlys Honrud -- Scandinavian-American place-names as viewed from the Old World / Kruse, Arne -- The position of Nynorsk in the Norwegian-American press / Hallaråker, Peter -- Some phonological changes in a Norwegian dialect in America / Hjelde, Arnstein -- The gender of English nouns used in American Norwegian / Hjelde, Arnstein -- E. NORWEGIAN DIALECTS IN SPITSBERGEN -- Semi-migration in the Arctic - a theoretical perspective on the dialect strategies of children on Spitsbergen / Mæhlum, Brit -- F. FINNISH - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- Retention and replacement of original Finnish words in American Finnish / Hirvonen, Pekka -- G. ENGLISH DIALECTS IN AMERICA -- English dialects transported / Kniezsa, Veronika -- H. SCOTS-GAELIC - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- Cape Breton - Western Isles: transatlantic resonance of language and culture / MacKinnon, Kenneth -- Gaelic-influenced Scots in pre-revolutionary Maryland / Millar, Robert McColl -- Ulster English as Janus: Language contact across the Irish Sea and across the North Atlantic / Montgomery, Michael / Robinson, Philip -- I. DUTCH - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- American Dutch: general trends in its development / Marie, Jaap van / Smits, Caroline -- J. GERMAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- The death of Texas German in Gillespie County / Guion, Susan G. -- K. CROATIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- Sociolinguistic conditions for maintenance of a dialect: The case of the Konavle dialect in Watsonville, California / Filipović, Rudolf -- L. ITALIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- Language contact among North-American people of Italian origin / Milani, Celestina -- Emigration from Southern Italy to the United States: Bilingualism and its linguistic effects on local dialects / Birken-Silverman, Gabriele -- III. AFRICAN-EUROPEAN - AMERICAN CONTACTS -- A West African Creole language in an Atlantic perspective: the origins and present state of Krio / Sandred, Karl Inge -- Index -- Authors' addresses |
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In English. |
| Source of Description |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) |
| Subject |
Languages in contact -- Congresses.
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Sociolinguistics -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Clarkson, Iain, editor.
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Ureland, P. Sture, editor.
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| Collection Title |
De Gruyter Online E-book Collection (EBS).
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| Host title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 9783110636895 ZDB-23-DLS |
| ISBN |
9783110929652 |
| Standard Identifier |
10.1515/9783110929652 doi |
| OCLC # |
1DG9783110929652 |
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