The Nordic Languages. Volume 1 (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK], 22/1) [1 ed.] 3110148765, 9783110148763

Table of contents :
I. Introduction
1. The Nordic language area and the languages in the north of Europe
2. The Nordic languages in a Germanic perspective
3. Diachrony and synchrony in Nordic language history
4. Previous attempts at establishing periods in Nordic language history
5. The data basis of a Nordic language history
II. Perpectives in research history I: From the beginnings to the middle of the 20th century
6. Previous attempts at writing a Nordic language history
7. Outline of research on Nordic language history before 1800
8. Research in Danish language history 1850-1950. An overview
9. Research in Swedish language history 1850-1950. An overview
10. Research in Norwegian language history 1850-1950. An overview
11. Research in Icelandic language history 1850-1950. An overview
12. Research in Faroese language history 1850-1950. An overview
III. Perspectives in research history II: The contribution of Nordic research to historical lingustics (until 1950)
13. Nordic contributions to historical linguistics before 1800
14. Contributions to Nordic language history by non-Nordic linguists (until ca. 1980)
15. The contributions of the Nordic countries to historical-comparative linguistics: Rasmus Rask and his followers
16. The contribution of Scandinavian neogrammarians
17. The Scandinavian contribution to structuralism (until 1950)
IV. Perspectives in research history III: Theoretical and methodological perspectives in current historical lingustic description (after 1950)
18. Nordic language history and structural linguistics
19. Nordic language history and generative transformational grammar
20. Nordic language history and language typology
21. Nordic language history and research on word order
22. Nordic language history and research on universals and theories of linguistic change
23. Nordic language history and sociolinguistics
24. Nordic language history and research on languages in contact and on multilingualism
25. Nordic language history and research on styles and registers
26. Nordic language history and pragmatics
27. Nordic language history and research on types of texts
28. Nordic language history and phraseology/idiomatics
29. Nordic language history and historical contrastive linguistics
30. Nordic language history: Semiotics and the theory of naturalness
31. Nordic language history and lexical semantics
32. Nordic language history and computer-aided lexical research
V. Perspectives in research history IV: The contribution of Nordic dialectology
33. General history of Nordic dialectology
34. The contribution of Nordic dialectology to language history
35. Nordic language history and current trends in dialectology
VI. Nordic language history as a part of social and cultural history
36. Nordic language history and studies in general history
37. Nordic language history and archaeology
38. Nordic lexical items and the history of material culture
39. Nordic language history and cultural geography
40. Nordic language history and legal history
41. Nordic language history and the history of ideas I: Humanism
42. Nordic language history and the history of ideas II: Rationalism and Enlightenment since the 18th century
43. Nordic language history and the history of ideas III: Nationalism, identity and democratic movements in the 19th and 20th centuries
44. Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history I: The pre-Christian period
45. Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history II: Christianization
46. Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history III: Luther's Reformation
47. Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history IV: From Pietism to the present
48. Nordic language history and natural and technical sciences
49. Nordic language history and literary history I: Denmark
50. Nordic language history and literary history II: Sweden
51. Nordic language history and literary history III: Norway
52. Nordic language history and literary history IV: Iceland
53. Nordic language history and literary history V: Faroese Islands
54. Nordic language history and the history of philosophy
55. The special case of Grundtvig: Poet, philosopher, politician, educator
56. Nordic language history and the history of translation I: Danish
57. Nordic language history and the history of translation II: Swedish
58. Nordic language history and the history of translation III: Norwegian
59. Nordic language history and the history of translation IV: Icelandic
60. Nordic language history and the history of translation V: Faroese
VII: Nordic as a part of Old Germanic
62. Nordic, Germanic, Indo-European and the structure of the Germanic language family
63. Nordic-Gothic linguistic relations
64. Nordic-West Germanic relations
65. Nordic and North Sea Germanic relations
66. Contact with non-Germanic languages I: Relations to the West
67. Contact with non-Germanic languages II: Relations to the East
68. Scandinavia in the light of ancient tradition
VIII: Ancient Nordic (1st-7th century)
69. The Ancient Nordic period. A historical survey
70. Delimitation of Ancient Nordic from Common Germanic and Old Nordic
71. A survey of ancient Nordic sources
72. The Ancient Nordic period: An archaeological survey
73. Runes: Origin, development of the futhark, functions, applications, and methodological considerations
74. The Ancient-Nordic linguistic system from a typological point of view: Phonology, graphemics, morphology, syntax, and word order
75. The development of Proto-Nordic lexicon
76. The development of Proto-Nordic personal names
77. The development of Proto-Nordic place-names
78. Sociolinguistic perspectives and language contact in Proto-Nordic
IX. From Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic (from the 6th Century until 1100)
79. From Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic: Definition and delimitation of the period
80. The sources of the transitional period between Ancient Nordic and Old Nordic
81. Phonological and graphematic developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
82. Morphological developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
83. Syntactic developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
84. Lexical developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
85. Developments of personal names from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
86. The development of place-names from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
87. Sociolinguistic perspectives in the transitional period between Proto-Nordic and Old-Nordic
88. Language contact in the period between Ancient Nordic and Old Nordic
X. Old Nordic (from 1100 to the mid-14th century) I: General survey, tradition
89. Nordic history in the Middle Ages and the extension of Nordic: Cultural and historical preconditions of language
90. Old Nordic: A definition and delimitation of the period
91. The history of Old Nordic manuscripts I: Old Icelandic
92. The history of Old Nordic manuscripts II: Old Norwegian (incl. Faroese)
93. The history of Old Nordic manuscripts III: Old Swedish
94. The history of Old Nordic manuscripts IV: Old Danish
95. The development of Latin script I: in Norway
96. The development of Latin script II: in Iceland
97. The development of Latin script III: in Sweden
98. The development of Latin script IV: in Denmark
99. History of Old Nordic metrics
XI. Old Nordic II: Grammatical system, lexicon, texts
100. The various Old Nordic dialects, their systems and their typology: A general survey of the classical Old Nordic of the High Middle Ages
101. The phonological systems of Old Nordic I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian
102. The phonological systems of Old Nordic II: Old Swedish and Old Danish
103. The morphology of Old Nordic I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian
104. The morphology of Old Nordic II: Old Swedish and Old Danish
105. The syntax of Old Nordic
106. The Old Nordic lexicon
107. The development of Old Nordic personal names
108. The development of Old Nordic place-names
109. Old Nordic types of texts I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian
110. Old Nordic types of texts II: Old Swedish and Old Danish
111. Translations and interference by translation in Old Nordic I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian
112. Translations and interference by translation in Old Nordic II: Old Swedish and Old Danish
XII. Old Nordic III: The ecology of language
113. Dialects and written language in Old Nordic I: Old Norwegian and Old Icelandic
114. Dialects and written language in Old Nordic II: Old Danish and Old Swedish
115. Language contact during the Old Nordic period I: with the British Isles, Frisia and the Hanseatic League
116. Language contact during the Old Nordic period II: with Eastern Europe
117. Language contact during the Old Nordic period III: The impact of Christianity on Old Nordic
118. History and development of Old Nordic outside the Scandinavia of today