IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 614: Languages in the Early Middle Ages: Travel, Contact, and Survival

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Platinum Latin
Organiser:	Danuta Shanzer, Department of Classics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign / Dumbarton Oaks Medieval (Latin) Library
Moderator/Chair:	Walter Pohl, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien
Paper 614-a	Late and Vulgar Latin in Early Muslim Spain: The African Connection (Language: English) Roger Wright, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Liverpool Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Semitic, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese
Paper 614-b	Language and Travel in the Early Middle Ages: Text and Context in the Old High German Pariser Gespräche (Language: English) Wolfgang Haubrichs, Fachbereich Germanistik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 614-c	Facts and Factors Concerning the Fate of the Gaulish Language in Late Antiquity (Language: English) David Stifter, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien Index terms: Demography, Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Celtic
Abstract	This interdisciplinary session brings together two linguists and an historian to explore travel (including invasion and migration) and questions of linguistic assimilation and survival. The session will cover Vulgar Latin in North Africa and Early Muslim Spain, the survival of Gothic in Spain, and contact between OHG and Romance speakers in Francia.