NOWELE Supplement Series
<div class="booktext"> <p>NOWELE Supplement Series is a book series associated with the journal <em>NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution</em>. The supplement series is devoted not only to the study of the history and prehistory of a locally determined group of languages, but also to the study of purely theoretical questions concerning historical language development. The series contains publications dealing with all aspects of the (pre-)histories of – and with intra- and extra-linguistic factors contributing to change and variation within – Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Frisian, Dutch, German, English, Gothic and the Early Runic language. The series will publish monographs and edited volumes.</p> </div> <div class="extra_description"> <p>John Benjamins has taken over sales and distribution of back volumes from the previous publisher, University Press of Southern Denmark, Odense.</p> </div>
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Alfred den Store, Danmarks geografi
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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
More 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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