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Alfred den Store, Danmarks geografi
Author(s): Ove JørgensenPublication Date January 1985More LessI denne bog foretager forfatteren en undersøgelse af de fire afsnit i kong Alfreds The Old English Orosius, hvori gammelt dansk område beskrives.Efter en forskningsoversigt imødegås de forestillinger, som flere tidligere forskere har dannet sig om, at kong Alfred – navnlig i Skandinavien – har anvendt en nordretning, som afviger fra den astronomiske. Ud fra tværfaglige synspunkter følger forfatteren den opfattelse, at forholdet mellem sprog og omverden ikke nødvendigvis er vilkårligt, og der stilles mere indtrængende spørgsmål til de forekommende lokaliteters geografiske beliggenhed end i den hidtidige historiske litteratur.
Ved gennemgangen af teksten følges det system, som først er opstillet af Laborde i 1925, og det vises, at beskrivelsen af østfrankernes og oldsaksernes naboer samt af de nordiske folk kunne være resultatet af rejser, som er foretaget af to af de medarbejdere ved værket, som vi kender navnene på fra de skriftlige kilder (Grimbald og Johannes).
Efter en gennemgang af de to afsnit, der sædvanligvis omtales som 'Ottars og Wulfstans rejsebeskrivelser', vises det, at disse tekster snarere er resultatet af kong Alfreds redaktion af værket.
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Beiträge zur Morphologie
Editor(s): Hans FixPublication Date January 2007More LessDer vorliegende Band, der auf ein interdisziplinäres Symposion Morphologische Probleme in den Sprachen der Ostseeanrainer im September 2005 am Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald zurückgeht, enthält Beiträge von Norbert Endres (Greifswald), Frank Heidermanns (Köln), Arend Quak (Amsterdam), Klaus Dietz (Berlin), Lucia Kornexl (Greifswald), Thomas Klein (Bonn), Dieter Möhn & Ingrid Schröder (Hamburg), Steffen Krogh (Århus), Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen (Leiden), Hans Fix (Greifswald), Andreas Schabalin (Greifswald), Dominika Skrzypek (Poznan), Hans Götzsche (Aalborg), Rainer Fecht (Berlin), Jochen D. Range (Netzelkow), Riho Grünthal (Helsinki), Johanna Laakso (Wien) und Marko Pantermöller (Greifswald).
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A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies
Author(s): Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.Publication Date January 1992More LessThis bibliography aims serve the demands and wishes of students of Old Frisian for its own sake as well as for those who want to use Old Frisian for comparative purposes. Although it concentrates on language and literature, titles have also been included which deal with more or less peripheral matters such as Ingvaeonic, history, legal history and daily life in Medieval Frisia.The bibliography is divided into three parts. Part I lists in alphabetical order all the books and articles. Part II alphabetically indexes the reviewers occurring in Part I. Part III contains an analytical index to Part I, enabling scholars to survey what work has been done on a particular subject.
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The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic
Author(s): Robert Mailhammer and Theo VennemannPublication Date October 2019More LessThis book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in the history of Germanic with critical implications for cultural history: the origin of the Germanic writing system (the Runic alphabet), the genesis of the Germanic strong verbs, the development of the Germanic word order, and etymologies for key elements of the Germanic lexicon. The book proposes that all four problems can be solved if it is hypothesized that over 2,000 years ago the ancestor of all Germanic languages, Proto-Germanic, was in intensive contact with Punic, a Semitic language from the Mediterranean. This scenario is explored by focusing on linguistic data, supported by an interdisciplinary mosaic of evidence. This book is of interest to anyone working on the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic languages.
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A Concise Grammar of the Old Frisian Dialect of the First Riustring Manuscript
Author(s): Dirk BoutkanPublication Date January 1996More LessThe language of the First Riustring Manuscript, dating from ca. 1300 AD, represents the most archaic stage of Old Frisian. The mainly legal texts are famous for their historical value. However, a grammatical treatise of this important codex is still lacking. This book is meant to meet this need. It contains an inventory of the linguistic evidence as well as a synchronic study of the grammar. Moreover, historical linguistic problems are discussed wherever relevant. The book is intended for all students of Old Frisian, not just linguists but also legal historians, philologists, historians, and others.
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Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects
Author(s): Kurt Gustav GoblirschPublication Date January 1994More LessThe present study examines the problem of fortis and lenis in approximately 150 dialects of southern Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Alsace, and the German-speaking minorities in Italy, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Upper German dialects are of particular interest from this point of view, because voice and aspiration, the features traditionally associated with strength, are generally absent. Changes related to strength such as lenition, vowel lengthening, simplification of geminates, and sandhi phenomena receive special attention. The findings are put into their appropriate context by comparison to the results of research on the status of strength in standard German and the modern Germanic languages. Although the realization of strength is language-specific and varies according to word-position, it can be equated with consonant length in standard German and Upper German dialects.
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The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154
Author(s): Hans Frede NielsenPublication Date January 1998More LessIn conjunction with two other volumes, which are scheduled to appear later, The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154 aims at giving a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. The present volume spans the period up to A.D. 1154, the year inaugurating the Plantagenet era in England and the year of the last events to be recorded in the annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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The Dawn of Dutch
Author(s): Michiel de VaanPublication Date December 2017More LessThe Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even later. The hunt for traces of Frisian or Ingvaeonic in the dialects of the western Low Countries has been going on for around 150 years, but a synthesis of the available evidence has never appeared. The main aim of this book is to fill that gap. It follows the lead of many recent studies on the nature and effects of language contact situations in the past. The topic is approached from two different angles: Dutch dialectology, in all its geographic and diachronic variation, and comparative Germanic linguistics. In the end, the minute details and the bigger picture merge into one possible account of the early and high medieval processes that determined the make-up of western Dutch.
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Det Gamle Shetlandske Sprog
Author(s): Laurits RendboePublication Date January 1987More LessDa den unge skotske teolog George Low blev sendt til Shetland i 1774 for at indsamle stof til en beskrivelse af disse øer, lykkedes det ham bl.a. at optegne en lille liste med hverdagsudtryk fra den gamle nordiske dialekt, der nedstammede direkte fra de oprindelige beboeres norrøne sprog, der var blevet ført til Shetland ca. 800 e.Kr., men som uddøde helt i det 19. århundrede.Det er dette gamle nordiske sprogminde, der her for første gang tages til behandling i sin helhed, idet der indledes med en kort sproghistorisk oversigt, hvorefter alle ordene i listen gennemgås grundigt; derefter følger en detaljeret analyse af de påviste lydlige og grammatiske træk, hvilket gør det muligt at drage mere konkrete og præcise slutninger om denne gamle vestnorske mundarts udvikling og stade på den tid end de hidtil accepterede traditionelle forestillinger har tilladt. Der sluttes af med en omfattende bibliografi og en kort opsummering på engelsk.
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Drei Studien zum Germanischen in alter und neuer Zeit
Editor(s): John Ole Askedal, Harald Bjorvand and Ottar GrønvikPublication Date January 1995More LessDer vorliegende Band ist ein Ergebnis der Arbeit im Bereich der vergleichen den germanischen Sprachwissenschaft am Germanistischen Institut der Universität Oslo. Im Beitrag von Harald Bjorvand wird gezeigt, daß die Zahl der maskulinen Verbalnomina mit i-Stamm bildung aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach wesentlich größer ist, als bisher angenommen wurde. Der Aufsatz von Ottar Gronvik bringt neue Gesichtspunkte zu den Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen des Krimgotischen und zur Herkunft der Goten. Im Beitrag von John Ole Askedal werden Hauptzüge der arealtypologischen Beziehungen zwischen Verbkonstruktionen in den modernen germanischen Sprachen beschrieben.
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Early Germanic Languages in Contact
Editor(s): John Ole Askedal and Hans Frede NielsenPublication Date June 2015More LessThis volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on themes pertaining to the aim and scope of the symposium. All papers cover central aspects of the early contact between Germanic and some of its Indo-European and non-Indo-European linguistic neighbours; and, in certain cases, aspects involving internal Germanic language contact.
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Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations
Author(s): Anna Cichosz, Jerzy Gaszewski and Piotr PęzikPublication Date December 2016More LessThis book is the first comprehensive corpus study of element order in Old English and Old High German, which brings to light numerous differences between these two closely related languages. The study’s innovative approach relies on translated texts, which allows the authors to tackle the problem of the apparent incomparability of OE and OHG textual records and to identify the areas of OE and OHG syntax potentially influenced by the Latin source texts. This is especially important from the point of view of OE research, where Latin is rarely considered to be a significant variable. The book’s profile and content is of direct interest to historical linguists working on OE and/or OHG (and Old Germanic languages in general), but it can also greatly benefit several other groups of researchers: scholars applying corpus methods to the study of dead languages, historical linguists generally, linguists researching element order as well as specialists in translation studies.
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Friesische Studien I
Editor(s): Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair G.H. Walker and Ommo WiltsPublication Date January 1992More LessDer vorliegende Band Friesische Studien I enthält die Referate von sechs Sprachwissenschaftlern und -wissenschaftlerinnen aus den Niederlanden und Deutschland anläßlich des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 10.-11. Oktober 1991 in Alkersum auf der nordfriesischen Insel Föhr stattfand.Der Inhalt der Beiträge befaßt sich mit der anglo-friesischen Missionsgeschichte, mit Fragen der altfriesischen Rechtsterminologie sowie mit der Rolle des Mittelniederdeutschen als Quelle nordfriesischer Sprachüberlieferung. Weitere Artikel behandeln Besonderheiten der Wortbildung bzw. Syntax in den modernen friesischen Mundarten sowie das Bild von Mann und Frau in der friesischen Lexikographie.
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Friesische Studien II
Editor(s): Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair G.H. Walker and Ommo WiltsPublication Date January 1995More LessDer vorliegende Band Friesische Studien II enthält die Referate von Wissenschaftlern unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen aus Dänemark, Deutschland, Großbritannien und den Niederlanden anläßlich des zweiten Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 7.–8. April 1994 in Alkersum auf der nordfriesischen Insel Föhr statt fand. Aus Sicht der Sprachwissenschaft und der Archäologie befassen sich die Beiträge mit der Einordnung des Friesischen in das nordwestgermanische Kontinuum, insbesondere mit den speziellen anglo-friesischen Runen sowie mit der Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Nordfriesen und des Nordfriesischen. Weitere Artikel beleuchten anhand englischer, friesischer und skandinavischer Ortsnamen die Rolle der Friesen in der Völkerwanderungszeit und weisen hin auf die Möglichkeiten der modernen DNS-Forschung bei der Bestimmung und Datierung archäologischer Funde. Bemerkungen zur Situation und Perspektive der Frisistik in Deutschland beschließen den Band.
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Friesische Studien III
Editor(s): Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair G.H. Walker and Ommo WiltsPublication Date January 1997More LessDer vorliegende Band Friesische Studien III enthält die Referate von sechs Sprachwissenschaftlern aus den Niederlanden und Deutschland anläßlich des dritten Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 11.–12. April 1996 in Alkersum auf Föhr stattfand. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit den besonderen Beziehungen des Friesischen zum Niederdeutschen und Niederländischen, unter anderem mit der Syntax des Stadtfriesischen in der niederländischen Provinz Friesland sowie mit den ostfriesisch-groningschen Sprachbeziehungen und der Rolle des Niederdeutschen bei den Saterfriesen. Weitere Artikel geben Einblick in die Geschichte des Niederländischen im nordfriesischen Küstenraum und erörtern die Frage der typologischen Einordnung des Nordfriesischen sowie Spezifika des Kodewechsels und der Entlehnung im Niederdeutschen und Nordfriesischen.
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From Dialect to Standard
Author(s): Hans Frede NielsenPublication Date January 2005More LessFrom Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776 is the second volume of a set of three offering a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America.The present book spans the period up to 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence and the year in which Adam Smith published his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. The title of the first volume from 1998 was The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154, the third and final volume being scheduled for publication later under the title The Development of American and British English from 1776 to the Present Day.
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From West to North Frisia
Editor(s): Alastair Walker, Eric Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma, Wendy Vanselow, Willem Visser and Christoph WinterPublication Date March 2022More LessThis volume contains 25 articles covering a wide array of subjects, reflecting the breadth of scholarship of one of today’s leading experts in the field of Frisian Studies. The articles, written mostly in English and German, encompass a temporal range from Old Frisian to Modern Frisian and a geographical range from West Frisian in the Netherlands to Sater and North Frisian in Germany, and include Low German. Some articles initiate new fields of enquiry, e.g. uncharted areas of dialectology, others give comprehensive reviews of certain domains, e.g. the provenance of Old Frisian law texts, while a third category focusses on specific topics ranging from phonology, grammar and etymology to aspects of Frisian literature and a medieval Frisian ballad.
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Irregularities in Modern English
Author(s): Hans Frede Nielsen and Erik W. HansenPublication Date January 2007More LessThis book, which appeared first in a Danish version in 1980 and subsequently in an English translation in 1986, reverses the history of the English language: it takes present-day English ‘irregularities’ in grammar and spelling as its point of departure, providing historical explanations only to the extent that they illustrate modern forms. A number of comparisons with developments in other Germanic languages are given, not only with Danish phenomena as in the original Danish edition, but also with Dutch and German ones. The authors believe that such comparisons shed light on English language history as well as contribute to make the book more interesting also to students of other Germanic languages.
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Make Peace and Take Victory
Author(s): Patricia RonanPublication Date January 2012More LessThis corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions may be employed to create periphrastic verbal expressions to denote concepts for which no simple verb exists in the language at that stage. This latter situation may particularly arise as a consequence of contact with new cultural concepts. The approach of the study is both qualitative and quantitative. It compares the use of the Old English constructions to corresponding Old Irish structures as well as to other language varieties, especially Present Day English, which has a considerably more analytic morphological structure than either of the two medieval languages.
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Nordfriesische Grabhügelnamen mit anthroponymem Erstglied
Author(s): Volkert F. FaltingsPublication Date January 1996More LessDie vorliegende Monographie behandelt die nordfriesischen Grabhügelnamen und die darin enthaltenen Anthroponyme. Die sprachgeschichtliche Analyse des Namenmaterials stützt sich dabei auf ein vielschichtiges Quellenmaterial, wobei ein spezielles Augenmerk den morphologischen Merkmalen gilt. Insbesondere die Art der genitivischen Kompositionsfuge scheint Rückschlüsse auf die Genese bestimmter Namentypen und ihrer Deklinationszugehörigkeit im (Nord)friesischen zuzulassen. Schließlich versteht sich die Arbeit auch als ein Beitrag zu einem (Nord)friesischen Namenbuch, das nach wie vor eines der größten Desiderate friesischer Namenkunde ist.
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Norn im keltischen Kontext
Author(s): Christer LindqvistPublication Date August 2015More LessAuch die Britischen Inseln waren von der wikingerzeitlichen Expansion ab dem 8. Jh. betroffen. Nördlich und westlich des dänischen Danelag in England entstanden norwegische Siedlungen auf den Shetland- und Orkneyinseln, in Nordschottland, auf den Hebriden, an der schottischen und nordenglischen Westküste, um die Irische See herum und südwärts. Waren die Nordleute anfangs als Plünderer und Eroberer unterwegs, wirkten sie bald auch als Händler und Stadt- und Staatengründer. Der daraus resultierende keltisch-westnordische Sprachkontakt hielt ein halbes Jahrtausend an und hinterließ Spuren im Norn, der frühneuzeitlichen nordischen Sprache, die bis ins 18. Jh. auf den Shetland- und Orkneyinseln und in Caithness gesprochen wurde. So finden sich Keltizismen sowohl in den wenigen Aufzeichnungen des Norn als auch im nordischen Substrat der schottischen Gegenwartsmundarten, die das Norn ablösten.
The British Isles were among the geographical areas affected by the Viking expansion from the 8th century onwards. North and west of the Danish Danelaw, Norwegian settlements were established on Shetland and Orkney, in Northern Scotland, on the Hebrides, along the west coast of Scotland and Northern England, around the Irish Sea and even further south. Raiders and conquerors at the outset, the Norsemen soon became traders and founded towns and states. The resulting language contact between Celtic and Old West Norse lasted half a millennium and left its mark on Norn, an early modern Nordic language spoken on Shetland, Orkney and in Caithness until the 18th century. Thus, Celticisms can be found both in the few written records of Norn and in the Nordic substratum of those varieties of Modern Scots that came to supplant Norn.
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Norse-derived Vocabulary in late Old English Texts
Author(s): Sara M. Pons-SanzPublication Date January 2007More LessThis book focuses on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023). A considerable advantage derives from studying Wulfstan's compositions because, unlike most Old English texts, they are closely dateable and, to a certain extent, localizable. Thus, they offer excellent material for the examination of the process of integration and accommodation of Norse-derived vocabulary in Old English. After establishing the list of terms which can be accepted to be Norse-derived, this book analyses their relations with their native synonyms, both from a semantic and a stylistic point of view, and their inclusion in the word-formation processes to which Wulfstan submitted his vocabulary, native and borrowed alike. The information derived from this approach is used to explore the possible reasons for the archbishop's selection of the borrowed terms and the impact which his lexical practices had on contemporary and later English writers.
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Old English Legal Language
Author(s): Jürg R. SchwyterPublication Date January 1996More LessThis corpus-based study examines the lexical field of theft in the Anglo-Saxon law-codes and documents containing reports of lawsuits (charters, writs, and some chapters of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). The individual Old English lexemes are analysed not only in terms of their meaning, collocation patterns, and Latin translations, but also, more unusually in a field-approach, with reference to their distribution over the various textual genres and the discourse strategies dominant in these. Although primarily linguistic in focus, a detailed description of the theft-offences and the wider context in which they occur should also be of interest to the historian.
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Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule
Author(s): Marcelle ColePublication Date July 2014More LessThis volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that characterise the so-called Northern Subject Rule concord system. The study presents new evidence which challenges the traditional Early Middle English dating attributed to the emergence of subject-type concord in the North of England and demonstrates that the syntactic configuration of the Northern Subject Rule was already a feature of Old English. By setting the Northumbrian developments within a broad framework of diachronic and diatopic variation, in which manifestations of subject-type concord are explored in a wide range of varieties of English, the author argues that a concord system based on subject type rather than person/number features is in fact a far less local and more universal tendency in English than previously believed.
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The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages
Editor(s): Hans Frede Nielsen and Lene SchøslerPublication Date January 1996More LessThe Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages is the proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium held at Odense University, November 1994
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Prepositions in Old and Middle English
Author(s): Tom Lundskær-NielsenPublication Date January 1993More LessThe present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a detailed semantic analysis of the three prepositions at, in and on in selected Old and Middle English texts, which shows to what extent the relative distribution of these prepositions changed during that period and how they gradually acquired new, extended senses.The front cover illustration renders the 895 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Parker Ms., and has been reproduced with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic
Author(s): Elżbieta AdamczykPublication Date April 2018More LessThe book is a comprehensive corpus study of analogical developments in the nominal morphology of four Northern West Germanic languages: Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Old Low Franconian. It examines the patterns of reorganisation of the nominal paradigms, focusing on the analogical interdeclensional shifts of nouns affiliated with historical minor classes. The wide scope and comparative nature of the study facilitate identifying the major patterns of inflectional restructuring, both language-specific and those of a more general character, demonstrating that the process was far from random. By framing the investigated phenomena quantitatively, the study affords insight into the dynamics of the changes, their scope in individual languages, the mechanisms underlying the restructuring process and the factors conditioning it. The book may be of interest to both historical linguists who may appreciate its descriptive aspects as well as morphologists concerned with the mechanisms of morphological processes, especially analogy.
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Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy
Author(s): Richard L. MorrisPublication Date January 1988More LessRunic and Mediterranean Epigraphy examines the past 100 years of runic scholarship to show that previous investigations on the origin of the runes have been hampered by a series of ad hoc postulates, the greatest being that the runes cannot have come into existence before the birth of Christ. If one examines the runic, Greek, and Latin alphabets on the basis of letter shapes, graphic-phonological correspondences, direction of writing, the orthographic treatment of nasals, the use of ligatures, interpuncts, and double letters, without any regard to time, striking similiarities appear. These similarities occur between the runes on the one hand and the archaic, pre-classical Greek and Latin writing systems, but not the Latin and Greek writing systems after the birth of Christ. While comparison yields a definite relationship between the runes and the archaic Greek and Latin writing systems, the runes seem to have more in common with the Greek than with the Latin. Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy demonstrates that the question, 'Where did the runes come from?' has not yet been answered.
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Skandinavisch-schottische Sprachbeziehungen im Mittelalter
Author(s): Susanne KriesPublication Date January 2003More LessDie Untersuchung stellt den ersten Versuch einer detaillierten Analyse der skandinavischen Lehnwörter im älteren Schottisch und im Mittelschottischen dar. Einzelne Kapitel widmen sich den unterschiedlichen semantischen Feldern, wobei sprachliche wie außersprachliche Bedingungen für die Entlehnung skandinavischer Lexeme diskutiert werden. Von den 740 hier genannten Lehnwörtern werden 506 einer detaillierten Analyse unterzogen. Die Studie zeigt, daß es eine genügend große Zahl skandinavischer Lehnwörter im Mittelschottischen gibt, die kein Äquivalent im Englischen haben, um andere Formen sprachlichen und kulturellen Einflusses anzunehmen als bisher von der Forschung dargestellt.
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The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse
Author(s): Martin SyrettPublication Date January 1994More LessThe Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse attempts to analyse the unaccented vowel system attested in the proto-Norse period, as partially attested in the older runic inscriptions in the elder futhark. Each chapter in turn assesses the evidence for unaccented syllables of a particular category, whether inflectional or derivational, and decides whether any reliable conclusions can be drawn from it. It is argued that too many widely accepted views are based on insufficient and poor methodology, and that too little note has been taken of the fact that viable alternatives exist alongside most of our theories about proto-Norse. In particular, a new realisation that the inscriptions are written in a less than perfect orthographic system, a notion that many scholars have often been unwilling to accept, leads to some interesting new interpretations of the data.
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Untersuchungen zu den Gründungsdokumenten der färöischen Rechtschreibung
Author(s): Christer LindqvistPublication Date May 2018More LessDie färöische Gegenwartsorthographie ging nicht wie die moderne Rechtschreibung vieler Sprachen aus einer jahrhundertelangen Schrifttradition hervor, sondern wurde im Wesentlichen im 19. Jh. neu erschaffen. Ihre Gründungsdokumente bestehen aus vier färöischen Zaubersprüchen, die in einer bis Mitte des 19. Jh. üblichen, relativ orthophonen Schreibweise gefasst sind. Als die Zaubersprüche 1846 veröffentlicht werden sollten, wurden sie schrittweise in eine stark historisierende Schreibweise überführt, die in der färöischen Gegenwartsorthographie resultiert hat. Diese Orthographie ist bemerkenswert, weil mit ihr synchron gesehen ein sehr großer Abstand zwischen Graphemik und Phonemik sprachplanerisch erfolgreich eingeführt werden konnte, obwohl gerade solche Verhältnisse ansonsten vielfach als reformbedürftig gelten. Das vorliegende Buch enthält eine Edition aller relevanten Handschriften und ordnet diese in ihren kulturhistorischen Kontext ein.
Unlike the modern orthography of many other languages, Modern Faroese spelling did not emerge from centuries of literary tradition, but was re-created mainly in the 19th century. Its founding documents consist of four Faroese spells written in a relatively orthophone spelling that was common up until the middle of the 19th century. Prior to their publication in 1864, the spells were converted step by step into a spelling with orthographic depth along diachronic lines which eventually resulted in Modern Faroese spelling. This spelling is remarkable, since it represents the successful normative implementation of an orthographic system which, seen from a synchronic point of view, maintains a vast gap between graphemes and phonemes, a state of affairs that in most cases would be a reason for, not a result of spelling reforms. The present book contains an edition of all relevant manuscripts, and situates them in their cultural and historical context.
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Zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Altniederländischen
Editor(s): Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. and Arend QuakPublication Date January 1992More LessUnter den Übersichten über die ältesten germanischen Sprachen vermißt man oft das Altniederländische. Es wird ihm höchstens ein sehr bescheidener Platz unter der Bezeichnung 'Altnieder fränkisch' eingeräumt. Als Folge der namentlich deutschen historischen Sprachforschung des 19. Jahrhunderts betrachtet man das Altniederfränkische meistens als eine der deutschen Mundarten und nicht als selbständigen Zweig neben den anderen kontinentalen westgermanischen Sprachen: Altfriesisch, Altsächsisch und Althochdeutsch. Eine andere Betrachtungsweise ist durchaus möglich und gar wünschenswert. Maurits Gysseling und Arend Quak zeigen in diesem Band, daß das spärliche Material – hauptsächlich Namen und die Wachtendonckschen Psalmen – eine ausreichende Grundlage bieten, um zu einer einigermaßen ausgebauten Phonologie und Morphologie des Altniederländischen zu kommen. Dieses Buch ist somit nicht nur ein Ansatz zu weiterer Forschung des Altniederländischen als solches. Es bildet zugleich die Grundlage für vergleichende Zwecke.
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