IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 328: Crossing Linguistic Borders: Names in Contact, II
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Ludwig Rübekeil, Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ludwig Rübekeil, Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich |
| Paper 328-a | Place-Names in Shropshire (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Onomastics |
| Paper 328-b | Contact across Writing and Naming Systems: Medieval Names in Runes (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Comparative, Literacy and Orality, Onomastics |
| Paper 328-c | Aventica / Wibilsburc: On the Names of Avenches (Switzerland) in Medieval Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin, Onomastics |
| Abstract | In the course of migration processes and social mobility in the Middle Ages, speakers of different languages, dialects and sociolects met, which led to a large variety of linguistic contact effects. Within the broad framework of 'Historical Language Contact and Multilingualism', this session-pair focuses on a linguistic category often neglected in contact linguistic studies: the names. Names do not only often show a different grammatical contact behaviour than appellatives, but they also more apparently reflect sociolinguistic aspects of contact situations. The papers in this second session address medieval attestations of names in contact zone, whereas in the first session theoretical and methodological principles of contact onomastics are discussed. |