Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History

by Braunmuller, Kurt; Ferraresi, Gisella

• ISBN13: 9781588114464
• ISBN10: 1588114465
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(14)
Kurt Braunmuller and Gisella Ferraresi
Oceano vox: You never know where a ship comes from: On multilingualism and language-mixing in medieval Britain	15	(20)
David Trotter
Language contact and bilingualism in Flensburg in the middle of the 19th century	35	(26)
Elin Fredsted
Written and spoken languages in Bergen in the Hansa era	61	(24)
Agnete Nesse
Vyborg: Free trade in four languages	85	(20)
Marika Tandefelt
Dialect and language contacts on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 15th century until 1939	105	(40)
Bjorn Wiemer
Swedish and Swedish: On the origin of diglossia and social variation in the Swedish language	145	(28)
Lars Wollin
Did Latin influence German word order? Aspects of German-Latin bilingualism in the Late Middle Ages	173	(28)
Diana Chirita
From unity to diversity in Romance syntax: Portuguese and Spanish	201	(34)
Ana Maria Martins
Sardinian between maintenance and change	235	(26)
Rosita Rindler Schjerve
Language contact and Maltese intonation: Some parallels with other language varieties	261	(24)
Alexandra Vella
Index	285