The Celtic Englishes II

Edited by Hildegard L. C. Tristram.

22 contributions from the Second Colloquium on the Celtic Englishes, held at the University of Potsdam from 23.-27. Sept. 1998, explore theoretical approaches to the study of the Celtic Englishes including the so-called 'layer-cake-model' (substratum theory), 'half-eaten-triflemodel' of blurred dialect boundaries, prototype theory, corpus studies and quantification as well as sociolinguistic networks. The Englishes analysed represent all major Celtic varieties from Australia to America. The volume attests both to their great sociocultural similarities and systems-linguistic differences. - Contents: Hildegard L. C. Tristram: Introduction: Languages in Contact, Layer Cake Model or Otherwise?. - Susanne E. Carroll: Language Contact from a Developmental Perspective. - Annette Sabban: Operationalising the Concept of Diglossia. - Andrea Sand: From Mimicry to Hybridity. Can the Study of the Celtic Englishes Benefit from Post-Colonial Theory? - Clemens Fritz: The Irish in Australia. Aspects of Linguistic Accomodation. - Karen P. Corrigan: "What are 'Small Clauses' doing in South Armagh English, Irish and Planter English?" - Raymond Hickey: Models for Describing Aspect in Irish English. - Ingo Mittendorf & Erich Poppe: Celtic Contacts of the English Progressive? - Breesha Maddrell: Studying Networks in a Community of Diversities. The "Recording Mann" Project. - Amdt Wigger: Language Contact, Language Awareness, and the History of Hiberno-English. - Astrid Fieß: Age-Group Differentiation in the Spoken Language of Rural East Galway? - Malcolm Williams: The Pragmatics of Predicate Fronting in Welsh English. - Michael Montgomery: The Celtic Element in American English. - Patricia Kelly: A Seventeenth-Century Variety of Irish English. "Spoken English in Ireland 1600-1740" Revisited. - Liam Mac Mathúna: Toponyms across Languages. The Role of Toponymy in Ireland's Language Shifts. - Robert Penhallurick: On Gower English, Dialect and Metaphor. - Markku Filppula: The Unbearable Lightness of the 'Layer Cake Model'. A Variationist Critique. - Terence P. Dolan: The Compilation of a Dictionary of Hiberno-English. - Juhani Klemola: The Origins of the Northern Subject Rule. A Case of Early Contact? - Gary D. German: Britons, Anglo-Saxons and Scholars. 19th Century Attitudes Towards the Survival of Britons in Anglo-Saxon England. - Wolfgang Viereck: Celtic and English. An Intricate Interrelationship. - Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld: English as a "Celtic" Language. - IX,478 Seiten mit 28 Abb. und 10 Karten, broschiert (Anglistische Forschungen; Vol. 286/Universitätsverlag Winter 2000) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear