From the Russian Rivers to the North Atlantic — Migration, Contact and Linguistic Areas

edited by Sture Ureland

Book cover: From the Russian Rivers to the North Atlantic — Migration, Contact and Linguistic Areas

Extent: 612 pages

Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin

Subjects: Language & Linguistics

Series: Studies in Eurolinguistics

Series volume number: 7

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2010)

ISBN: 9783832525842

6.65 x 9.45 inches

Price: $52.00

Out of stock

Euro-Atlantic and Euro-wide Eurolinguistics: The conquest of the North Atlantic (Fennell, Stewart, Broderick, Quinn); language policy in the EU (Simon, Lagerstedt, Ureland); phraseology Europe-wide (Kiso, Piirainen); documentation of regional languages and linguistic minorities (Agresti); language conflict and the spread of European isogosses (Voronkova); the great problem of European lexicography (Merolle). Eurolinguistics West: Scandinavian loanwords in Normandy (Birken-Silverman); Occitan as a basis for learning Romance languages (Agresti); trilingualism in Alsace and Lorraine (Bienkowski); language situation in Orkney Islands (Rendall); Celtic language planning (MacKinnon); regional and minority languages in the EU (McKendry and Muller). Eurolinguistics South: Spanish as a standardization model for the rise of Standard Italian (Antonio Castorina); standardization of Andaluz (Iezzi); Medieval Latin – New High German and Medieval Latin – Early Italian (Kammerer); minority languages in Molise (Pugliese); the use of English in Rome (Sommella); Serbian migrations and Serbs in exile (Cvetkovi ‘c); Bulgarian minorities in the diaspora (Kampf). Eurolinguistics Centre: Alpine Romance vernaculars between Germanic and Romance (Bauer); Schuchardt as a Eurolinguist (Haas); language shift from Low German to High German (Kremer); Croats in the diaspora in Burgenland, Austria (So v{canac). Eurolinguistics North: Polish immigration to Sweden (De Geer); the rise of documentation institutes of dialectology, place names and folklore in Uppsala (Brylla, Strandberg). Eurolinguistics East and Euro-Asiatic: Russian influence on Nikvh (Gruzdeva); Finno-Ugric influence on Scandinavian (Swedish, Norwegian) and Russian (Kusmenko, Weinstock); Paleo-Sibirian influence on Russian dialects (Voronkova and Guseva-Lozinski).

  • Edited by Sture Ureland