The Nordic Languages. Volume 1 (eBook)
1084 Seiten
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-019705-1 (ISBN)
This handbook is conceived as a comprehensive history of the North Germanic languages from the oldest times up to the present day. Whereas most of the traditional presentations of Nordic language history are confined to individual languages and often concentrate on purely linguistic data, the present work covers the history of all Nordic languages in its totality, embedded in a broad culture-historical context. The Nordic languages are described both individually and in their mutual dependence as well as in relation to the neighboring non-Nordic languages. The handbook is not tied to a particular methodology, but keeps in principle to a pronounced methodological pluralism, encompassing all aspects of actual methodology. Moreover it combines diachronic with synchronic-systematic aspects, longitudinal sections with cross-sections (periods such as Old Norse, transition from Old Norse to Early Modern Nordic, Early Modern Nordic 1550-1800 and so on). The description of Nordic language history is built upon a comprehensive collection of linguistic data; it consists of more than 200 articles, written by a multitude of authors from Scandinavian and German and English speaking countries. The organization of the handbook combines a central part on the detailed chronological developments and some chapters of a more general character: chapters on theory and methodology in the beginning, and on overlapping spatio-temporal topics in the end.
Key features:
- complete and comprehensive study of the Nordic languages
- all Nordic languages are treated individually and in their mutual dependence
- international handbook series
- two volumes offering the current state of research
I. Introduction 30
1. The Nordic language area and the languages in the north of Europe 30
2. The Nordic languages in a Germanic perspective 42
3. Diachrony and synchrony in Nordic language history 54
4. Previous attempts at establishing periods in Nordic language history 60
5. The data basis of a Nordic language history 67
II. Perpectives in research history I: From the beginnings to the middle of the 20th century 78
6. Previous attempts at writing a Nordic language history 78
7. Outline of research on Nordic language history before 1800 89
8. Research in Danish language history 1850-1950. An overview 97
9. Research in Swedish language history 1850-1950. An overview 105
10. Research in Norwegian language history 1850-1950. An overview 115
11. Research in Icelandic language history 1850-1950. An overview 124
12. Research in Faroese language history 1850-1950. An overview 131
III. Perspectives in research history II: The contribution of Nordic research to historical lingustics (until 1950) 137
13. Nordic contributions to historical linguistics before 1800 137
14. Contributions to Nordic language history by non-Nordic linguists (until ca. 1980) 145
15. The contributions of the Nordic countries to historical-comparative linguistics: Rasmus Rask and his followers 153
16. The contribution of Scandinavian neogrammarians 162
17. The Scandinavian contribution to structuralism (until 1950) 177
IV. Perspectives in research history III: Theoretical and methodological perspectives in current historical lingustic description (after 1950) 186
18. Nordic language history and structural linguistics 186
19. Nordic language history and generative transformational grammar 195
20. Nordic language history and language typology 201
21. Nordic language history and research on word order 211
22. Nordic language history and research on universals and theories of linguistic change 221
23. Nordic language history and sociolinguistics 227
24. Nordic language history and research on languages in contact and on multilingualism 242
25. Nordic language history and research on styles and registers 250
26. Nordic language history and pragmatics 258
27. Nordic language history and research on types of texts 264
28. Nordic language history and phraseology/idiomatics 270
29. Nordic language history and historical contrastive linguistics 276
30. Nordic language history: Semiotics and the theory of naturalness 282
31. Nordic language history and lexical semantics 291
32. Nordic language history and computer-aided lexical research 297
V. Perspectives in research history IV: The contribution of Nordic dialectology 301
33. General history of Nordic dialectology 301
34. The contribution of Nordic dialectology to language history 311
35. Nordic language history and current trends in dialectology 333
VI. Nordic language history as a part of social and cultural history 342
36. Nordic language history and studies in general history 342
37. Nordic language history and archaeology 346
38. Nordic lexical items and the history of material culture 354
39. Nordic language history and cultural geography 367
40. Nordic language history and legal history 373
41. Nordic language history and the history of ideas I: Humanism 383
42. Nordic language history and the history of ideas II: Rationalism and Enlightenment since the 18th century 392
43. Nordic language history and the history of ideas III: Nationalism, identity and democratic movements in the 19th and 20th centuries 402
44. Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history I: The pre-Christian period 418
45. Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history II: Christianization 432
46. Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history III: Luther's Reformation 441
47. Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history IV: From Pietism to the present 453
48. Nordic language history and natural and technical sciences 464
49. Nordic language history and literary history I: Denmark 470
50. Nordic language history and literary history II: Sweden 478
51. Nordic language history and literary history III: Norway 487
52. Nordic language history and literary history IV: Iceland 499
53. Nordic language history and literary history V: Faroese Islands 511
54. Nordic language history and the history of philosophy 516
55. The special case of Grundtvig: Poet, philosopher, politician, educator 523
56. Nordic language history and the history of translation I: Danish 531
57. Nordic language history and the history of translation II: Swedish 540
58. Nordic language history and the history of translation III: Norwegian 547
59. Nordic language history and the history of translation IV: Icelandic 556
60. Nordic language history and the history of translation V: Faroese 562
VII: Nordic as a part of Old Germanic 573
62. Nordic, Germanic, Indo-European and the structure of the Germanic language family 573
63. Nordic-Gothic linguistic relations 582
64. Nordic-West Germanic relations 587
65. Nordic and North Sea Germanic relations 597
66. Contact with non-Germanic languages I: Relations to the West 601
67. Contact with non-Germanic languages II: Relations to the East 612
68. Scandinavia in the light of ancient tradition 623
VIII: Ancient Nordic (1st-7th century) 634
69. The Ancient Nordic period. A historical survey 634
70. Delimitation of Ancient Nordic from Common Germanic and Old Nordic 644
71. A survey of ancient Nordic sources 648
72. The Ancient Nordic period: An archaeological survey 655
73. Runes: Origin, development of the futhark, functions, applications, and methodological considerations 663
74. The Ancient-Nordic linguistic system from a typological point of view: Phonology, graphemics, morphology, syntax, and word order 678
75. The development of Proto-Nordic lexicon 686
76. The development of Proto-Nordic personal names 693
77. The development of Proto-Nordic place-names 700
78. Sociolinguistic perspectives and language contact in Proto-Nordic 714
IX. From Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic (from the 6th Century until 1100) 720
79. From Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic: Definition and delimitation of the period 720
80. The sources of the transitional period between Ancient Nordic and Old Nordic 727
81. Phonological and graphematic developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic 732
82. Morphological developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic 748
83. Syntactic developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic 758
84. Lexical developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic 762
85. Developments of personal names from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic 774
86. The development of place-names from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic 782
87. Sociolinguistic perspectives in the transitional period between Proto-Nordic and Old-Nordic 790
88. Language contact in the period between Ancient Nordic and Old Nordic 798
X. Old Nordic (from 1100 to the mid-14th century) I: General survey, tradition 807
89. Nordic history in the Middle Ages and the extension of Nordic: Cultural and historical preconditions of language 807
90. Old Nordic: A definition and delimitation of the period 816
91. The history of Old Nordic manuscripts I: Old Icelandic 822
92. The history of Old Nordic manuscripts II: Old Norwegian (incl. Faroese) 830
93. The history of Old Nordic manuscripts III: Old Swedish 837
94. The history of Old Nordic manuscripts IV: Old Danish 845
95. The development of Latin script I: in Norway 853
96. The development of Latin script II: in Iceland 861
97. The development of Latin script III: in Sweden 870
98. The development of Latin script IV: in Denmark 879
99. History of Old Nordic metrics 885
XI. Old Nordic II: Grammatical system, lexicon, texts 900
100. The various Old Nordic dialects, their systems and their typology: A general survey of the classical Old Nordic of the High Middle Ages 900
101. The phonological systems of Old Nordic I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian 911
102. The phonological systems of Old Nordic II: Old Swedish and Old Danish 925
103. The morphology of Old Nordic I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian 940
104. The morphology of Old Nordic II: Old Swedish and Old Danish 954
105. The syntax of Old Nordic 969
106. The Old Nordic lexicon 980
107. The development of Old Nordic personal names 992
108. The development of Old Nordic place-names 1001
109. Old Nordic types of texts I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian 1010
110. Old Nordic types of texts II: Old Swedish and Old Danish 1019
111. Translations and interference by translation in Old Nordic I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian 1029
112. Translations and interference by translation in Old Nordic II: Old Swedish and Old Danish 1034
XII. Old Nordic III: The ecology of language 1044
113. Dialects and written language in Old Nordic I: Old Norwegian and Old Icelandic 1044
114. Dialects and written language in Old Nordic II: Old Danish and Old Swedish 1047
115. Language contact during the Old Nordic period I: with the British Isles, Frisia and the Hanseatic League 1057
116. Language contact during the Old Nordic period II: with Eastern Europe 1068
117. Language contact during the Old Nordic period III: The impact of Christianity on Old Nordic 1074
118. History and development of Old Nordic outside the Scandinavia of today 1082
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