Scandinavian Language Contacts

This authoritative collection examines both language contacts in Scandinavia proper and also contacts with non-Scandinavian languages.

1. Introduction P. Sture Ureland and Iain Clarkson; Part I. North Scandinavia: 2. Russenorsk: a new look at the Russo-Norwegian pidgin in northern Norway Ingvild Broch and Ernst Hakon Jahr; Part II. East Scandinavia: 3. Language contact as reflected in the migration of the Finns, the Saamis and the Vikings Olavi Korhonen; 4. The Scandinavians in Russia: on the extra-linguistic factors in the language contact between North Germanic and East Slavic peoples in the early middle ages Annelies Lagreid; 5. Parallel internal development or interference? Post-positive article and possessive perfect in North Germanic and Northern Russian Baldur Panzer; 6. The realm of the Rus': a contribution to the problem of the rise of the East-Slavic kingdom Stefan Soderlind; Part III. West Scandinavia: 7. Language contact in the Faroes Bjorn Hagstrom; Part IV. South Scandinavia: 8. Statistical investigations of language death in a North Frisian community Niels-Erik Larsen; 9. Language contact in the German-Danish border region: the problems of interference Bent Sondergaard; Part V. Pan Scandinavia: 10. French transferences with nasal vowels in the graphematics and phonology of the Germanic languages Horst H. Munske; Part VI. Translatlantic Language Contact: 11. The influence of American English on American Swedish - a case study on the nature of interference P. Sture Ureland; Indexes.