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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Preface Per Sture Ureland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	IX
Acknowledgements Anders Ahlqvist, Iain Clarkson and Per Sture Ureland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	XII
Opening of the SLE conference in Galway, August 29, 1992 Gearoid Mac Eoin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	XIII
Introduction P. Sture Ureland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. PRE-COLUMBIAN CONTACTS
A. OLD NORSE IN THE FAROES
Old Norse in the Faroes (with special reference to palatalization) Otmar Werner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
B. OLD NORSE IN SCOTLAND AND NORN IN SHETLAND
Historical and linguistic evidence for Gall-Gaidheil and Norse in Western Scotland Andrew Jennings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
On the use of “be” as a perfective auxiliary in modern Shetland dialect: hybridization and syntactic change Alexander Pavlenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
C. OLD NORSE IN IRELAND
Old Norse in Ireland Britta Schulze-Thulin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
D. OLD NORSE IN ICELAND
Language contact in Iceland: the evidence of names Gillian Fellows-Jensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
E. GREENLAND
European contacts with Greenland as reflected in the place-names Inge Kleivan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
II. POST-COLUMBIAN CONTACTS
A. SCANDINAVIAN CONTACTS - EMIGRATION HISTORY
Swedish exodus – from Sillgatan in Gothenburg to America Lars Ljungmark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
The Swedish Emigrant Institute and the documentation of the transatlantic emigration era Ulf Beijbom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
Five decades of research on Swedish emigration to North America Dag Blanck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Β. SWEDISH- AMERICAN ENGLISH
Linkers, fillers, tags and flags – code-switching of conjunctions and conversational signals among American Swedes Staffan Klintborg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
C. SWEDISH - SPANISH IN ARGENTINA
Immigrant Swedish in Misiones, Argentina – towards language loss Gunvor Flodell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
D. NORWEGIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH
The Norwegian immigrants of the late 18th century and the problem of the so-called ‘great melting pot’ in America Marlys Honrud Larsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
Scandinavian-American place-names as viewed from the Old World Arne Kruse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
The position of Nynorsk in the Norwegian-American press Peter Hallaråker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
Some phonological changes in a Norwegian dialect in America Arnstein Hjelde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283
The gender of English nouns used in American Norwegian Arnstein Hjelde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
E. NORWEGIAN DIALECTS IN SPITSBERGEN
Semi-migration in the Arctic – a theoretical perspective on the dialect strategies of children on Spitsbergen Brit Mæhlum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
F. FINNISH - AMERICAN ENGLISH
Retention and replacement of original Finnish words in American Finnish Pekka Hirvonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
G. ENGLISH DIALECTS IN AMERICA
English dialects transported Veronika Kniezsa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
H. SCOTS-GAELIC - AMERICAN ENGLISH
Cape Breton – Western Isles: transatlantic resonance of language and culture Kenneth MacKinnon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
Gaelic-influenced Scots in pre-revolutionary Maryland Robert McColl Millar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
Ulster English as Janus: Language contact across the Irish Sea and across the North Atlantic Michael Montgomery and Philip Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
I. DUTCH - AMERICAN ENGLISH
American Dutch: general trends in its development Jaap van Marie and Caroline Smits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
J. GERMAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH
The death of Texas German in Gillespie County Susan G. Guion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	443
K. CROATIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH
Sociolinguistic conditions for maintenance of a dialect: The case of the Konavle dialect in Watsonville, California Rudolf Filipović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	465
L. ITALIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH
Language contact among North-American people of Italian origin Celestina Milani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	479
Emigration from Southern Italy to the United States: Bilingualism and its linguistic effects on local dialects Gabriele Birken-Silverman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	503
III. AFRICAN-EUROPEAN - AMERICAN CONTACTS
A West African Creole language in an Atlantic perspective: the origins and present state of Krio Karl Inge Sandred Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	527
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	543
Authors’ addresses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	551

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December 11, 1996

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Altnordisch; Sprachkontakt; Atlantischer Raum; Skandinavische Sprachen

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