Language Contact across the North Atlantic: Proceedings of the Working Groups held at the University College, Galway (Ireland), 1992 and the University of Göteborg (Sweden), 1993

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Language Contact across the North Atlantic

Proceedings of the Working Groups held at the University College, Galway (Ireland), 1992 and the University of Göteborg (Sweden), 1993

Edited by: P. Sture Ureland and Iain Clarkson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1996

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This volume contains a selection of papers which have been revised and extended for publication from two working groups held at conferences at Galway (1992) and Göteborg (1993) which celebrated the quincentenary of Columbus' discovery of America in 1492. The pre-Columbian period of language contact is covered by articles on Old Norse in the Faroes, Scotland and Ireland, the Shetland dialect and Norn, and placenames in Iceland and Greenland. The articles on the post-Columbian period are wide-ranging and cover, in the Scandinavian context, the Scandinavian emigration, American Swedish, American Finnish, Swedish-Spanish and various aspects of Norwegian in America and also in Spitzbergen; in the British colonial context, English dialects in New England, Scottish Gaelic in Nova Scotia and Scots in North America (Maryland, the Appalachians and Virginia); in the context of the later continental mass emigration, American Dutch, Texas German, Croatian and Italian. Two papers deal with reverse emigration, that of Sicilian and Calabrian dialects, and the special case of Krio in Sierra Leone.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Preface
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Per Sture Ureland

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Acknowledgements
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Anders Ahlqvist, Iain Clarkson and Per Sture Ureland

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Opening of the SLE conference in Galway, August 29, 1992
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Gearoid Mac Eoin

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Introduction
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P. Sture Ureland

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I. PRE-COLUMBIAN CONTACTS
A. OLD NORSE IN THE FAROES
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Old Norse in the Faroes (with special reference to palatalization)
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Otmar Werner

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B. OLD NORSE IN SCOTLAND AND NORN IN SHETLAND
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Historical and linguistic evidence for Gall-Gaidheil and Norse in Western Scotland
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Andrew Jennings

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On the use of “be” as a perfective auxiliary in modern Shetland dialect: hybridization and syntactic change
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Alexander Pavlenko

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C. OLD NORSE IN IRELAND
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Old Norse in Ireland
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Britta Schulze-Thulin

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D. OLD NORSE IN ICELAND
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Language contact in Iceland: the evidence of names
115
Gillian Fellows-Jensen

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E. GREENLAND
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European contacts with Greenland as reflected in the place-names
125
Inge Kleivan

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II. POST-COLUMBIAN CONTACTS
A. SCANDINAVIAN CONTACTS - EMIGRATION HISTORY
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Swedish exodus – from Sillgatan in Gothenburg to America
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Lars Ljungmark

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The Swedish Emigrant Institute and the documentation of the transatlantic emigration era
169
Ulf Beijbom

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Five decades of research on Swedish emigration to North America
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Dag Blanck

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Β. SWEDISH- AMERICAN ENGLISH
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Linkers, fillers, tags and flags – code-switching of conjunctions and conversational signals among American Swedes
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Staffan Klintborg

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C. SWEDISH - SPANISH IN ARGENTINA
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Immigrant Swedish in Misiones, Argentina – towards language loss
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Gunvor Flodell

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D. NORWEGIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH
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The Norwegian immigrants of the late 18th century and the problem of the so-called ‘great melting pot’ in America
237
Marlys Honrud Larsen

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Scandinavian-American place-names as viewed from the Old World
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Arne Kruse

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The position of Nynorsk in the Norwegian-American press
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Peter Hallaråker

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Some phonological changes in a Norwegian dialect in America
283
Arnstein Hjelde

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The gender of English nouns used in American Norwegian
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Arnstein Hjelde

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E. NORWEGIAN DIALECTS IN SPITSBERGEN
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Semi-migration in the Arctic – a theoretical perspective on the dialect strategies of children on Spitsbergen
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Brit Mæhlum

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F. FINNISH - AMERICAN ENGLISH
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Retention and replacement of original Finnish words in American Finnish
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Pekka Hirvonen

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G. ENGLISH DIALECTS IN AMERICA
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English dialects transported
351
Veronika Kniezsa

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H. SCOTS-GAELIC - AMERICAN ENGLISH
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Cape Breton – Western Isles: transatlantic resonance of language and culture
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Kenneth MacKinnon

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Gaelic-influenced Scots in pre-revolutionary Maryland
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Robert McColl Millar

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Ulster English as Janus: Language contact across the Irish Sea and across the North Atlantic
411
Michael Montgomery and Philip Robinson

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I. DUTCH - AMERICAN ENGLISH
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American Dutch: general trends in its development
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Jaap van Marie and Caroline Smits

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J. GERMAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH
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The death of Texas German in Gillespie County
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Susan G. Guion

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K. CROATIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH
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Sociolinguistic conditions for maintenance of a dialect: The case of the Konavle dialect in Watsonville, California
465
Rudolf Filipović

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L. ITALIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH
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Language contact among North-American people of Italian origin
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Celestina Milani

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Emigration from Southern Italy to the United States: Bilingualism and its linguistic effects on local dialects
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Gabriele Birken-Silverman

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III. AFRICAN-EUROPEAN - AMERICAN CONTACTS
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A West African Creole language in an Atlantic perspective: the origins and present state of Krio
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Karl Inge Sandred

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Index
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Authors’ addresses
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Altnordisch; Sprachkontakt; Atlantischer Raum; Skandinavische Sprachen

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Language Contact across the North Atlantic

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

I-IV

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgements

Opening of the SLE conference in Galway, August 29, 1992

Introduction

Old Norse in the Faroes (with special reference to palatalization)

Historical and linguistic evidence for Gall-Gaidheil and Norse in Western Scotland

On the use of “be” as a perfective auxiliary in modern Shetland dialect: hybridization and syntactic change

Old Norse in Ireland

Language contact in Iceland: the evidence of names

European contacts with Greenland as reflected in the place-names

Swedish exodus – from Sillgatan in Gothenburg to America

The Swedish Emigrant Institute and the documentation of the transatlantic emigration era

Five decades of research on Swedish emigration to North America

Linkers, fillers, tags and flags – code-switching of conjunctions and conversational signals among American Swedes

Immigrant Swedish in Misiones, Argentina – towards language loss

The Norwegian immigrants of the late 18th century and the problem of the so-called ‘great melting pot’ in America

Scandinavian-American place-names as viewed from the Old World

The position of Nynorsk in the Norwegian-American press

Some phonological changes in a Norwegian dialect in America

The gender of English nouns used in American Norwegian

Semi-migration in the Arctic – a theoretical perspective on the dialect strategies of children on Spitsbergen

Retention and replacement of original Finnish words in American Finnish

English dialects transported

Cape Breton – Western Isles: transatlantic resonance of language and culture

Gaelic-influenced Scots in pre-revolutionary Maryland

Ulster English as Janus: Language contact across the Irish Sea and across the North Atlantic

American Dutch: general trends in its development

The death of Texas German in Gillespie County

Sociolinguistic conditions for maintenance of a dialect: The case of the Konavle dialect in Watsonville, California

Language contact among North-American people of Italian origin

Emigration from Southern Italy to the United States: Bilingualism and its linguistic effects on local dialects

A West African Creole language in an Atlantic perspective: the origins and present state of Krio

Index

Authors’ addresses

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