The Nordic Languages: Volume 1

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"Oskar Bandle and his team have provided the student of Northern European languages with an invaluable tool." Graeme Dunphy in: MLR 4/2008 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