Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
  • The Nordic language area and the languages in the north of Europe
  • The Nordic languages in a Germanic perspective
  • Diachrony and synchrony in Nordic language history
  • Previous attempts at establishing periods in Nordic language history
  • The data basis of a Nordic language history
• Perspectives in research history I: From the beginnings to the middle of the 20th century
  • Previous attempts at writing a Nordic language history
  • Outline of research on Nordic language history before 1800
  • Research in Danish language history 1850-1950. An overview
  • Research in Swedish language history 1850-1950. An overview
  • Research in Norwegian language history 1850-1950. An overview
  • Research in Icelandic language history 1850-1950. An overview
  • Research in Faroese language history 1850-1950. An overview
• Perspectives in research history II: The contribution of Nordic research to historical linguistics (until 1950)
  • Nordic contributions to historical linguistics before 1800
  • Contributions to Nordic language history by non-Nordic linguists (until ca. 1980)
  • The contribution of the Nordic countries to historical-comparative linguistics: Rasmus Rask and his followers
  • The contribution of Scandinavian neogrammarians
  • The Scandinavian contribution to structuralism (until 1950)
• Perspectives in research history III: Theoretical and methodological perspectives in current historical linguistic description (after 1950)
  • Nordic language history and structural linguistics
  • Nordic language history and generative transformational grammar
  • Nordic language history and language typology
  • Nordic language history and research on word order
  • Nordic language history and research on universals and theories of linguistic change
  • Nordic language history and sociolinguistics
  • Nordic language history and research on languages in contact and on multilingualism
  • Nordic language history and research on styles and registers
  • Nordic language history and pragmatics
  • Nordic language history and research on types of texts
  • Nordic language history and phraseology/idiomatics
  • Nordic language history and historical contrastive linguistics
  • Nordic language history: Semiotics and the theory of naturalness
  • Nordic language history and (lexical) semantics
  • Nordic language history and computer-aided lexical research
• Perspectives in research history IV: The contribution of Nordic dialectology
  • General history of Nordic dialectology
  • The contribution of Nordic dialectology to language history
  • Nordic language history and current trends in dialectology
• Nordic language history as a part of social and cultural history
  • Nordic language history and studies in general history
  • Nordic language history and archaeology
  • Nordic lexical items and the history of material culture
  • Nordic language history and cultural geography
  • Nordic language history and legal history
  • Nordic language history and the history of ideas I: Humanism
  • Nordic language history and the history of ideas II: Rationalism and Enlightenment since the 18th century
  • Nordic language history and the history of ideas III: Nationalism, identity and democratic movements in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history I: The pre-Christian period
  • Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history II: Christianization
  • Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history III: Luther's Reformation
  • Nordic language history and religion/ecclesiastical history IV: From Pietism to the present
  • Nordic language history and natural and technical sciences
  • Nordic language history and literary history I: Denmark
  • Nordic language history and literary history II: Sweden
  • Nordic language history and literary history III: Norway
  • Nordic language history and literary history IV: Iceland
  • Nordic language history and literary history V: Faroe Islands
  • Nordic language history and the history of philosophy
  • The special case of Grundtvig: Poet, philosopher, politician, educator
  • Nordic language history and the history of translation I: Danish
  • Nordic language history and the history of translation II: Swedish
  • Nordic language history and the history of translation III: Norwegian
  • Nordic language history and the history of translation IV: Icelandic
  • Nordic language history and the history of translation V: Faroese
  • Nordic language history and philology: Editing earlier texts
• Nordic as a part of Old Germanic
  • Nordic, Germanic, Indo-European and the structure of the Germanic language family
  • Nordic-Gothic linguistic relations
  • Nordic-West Germanic relations
  • Nordic and North Sea Germanic relations
  • Contact with non-Germanic languages I: Relations to the West
  • Contact with non-Germanic languages II: Relations to the East
  • Scandinavia in the light of ancient tradition
• Ancient Nordic (1st–7th century)
  • The Ancient Nordic period. A historical survey
  • Delimitation of Ancient Nordic from Common Germanic and Old Nordic
  • A survey of Ancient Nordic sources
  • The Ancient Nordic period: An archaeological survey
  • Runes: Origin, development of the futhark, functions, applications, and methodological considerations
  • The Ancient Nordic linguistic system from a typological point of view: Phonology, graphemics, morphology, syntax, and word order
  • The development of Proto-Nordic lexicon
  • The development of Proto-Nordic personal names
  • The development of Proto-Nordic place-names
  • Sociolinguistic perspectives and language contact in Proto-Nordic
• From Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic (from the 6th century until 1100)
  • From Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic: Definition and delimitation of the period
  • The sources of the transitional period between Ancient Nordic and Old Nordic
  • Phonological and graphematic developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
  • Morphological developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
  • Syntactic developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
  • Lexical developments from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
  • Developments of personal names from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
  • The development of place-names from Ancient Nordic to Old Nordic
  • Sociolinguistic perspectives in the transitional period between Proto-Nordic and Old Nordic
  • Language contact in the period between Ancient Nordic and Old Nordic
• Old Nordic (from 1100 to the mid-14th century) I: General survey, tradition
  • Nordic history in the Middle Ages and the extension of Nordic: Cultural and historical preconditions of language
  • Old Nordic: A definition and delimitation of the period
  • The history of Old Nordic manuscripts I: Old Icelandic
  • The history of Old Nordic manuscripts II: Old Norwegian (incl. Faroese)
  • The history of Old Nordic manuscripts III: Old Swedish
  • The history of Old Nordic manuscripts IV: Old Danish
  • The development of Latin script I: in Norway
  • The development of Latin script II: in Iceland
  • The development of Latin script III: in Sweden
  • The development of Latin script IV: in Denmark
  • History of Old Nordic metrics
• Old Nordic II: Grammatical system, lexicon, texts
  • The various Old Nordic dialects, their systems and their typology: A general survey of the classical Old Nordic of the High Middle Ages
  • The phonological systems of Old Nordic I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian
  • The phonological systems of Old Nordic II: Old Swedish and Old Danish
  • The morphology of Old Nordic I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian
  • The morphology of Old Nordic II: Old Swedish and Old Danish
  • The syntax of Old Nordic
  • The Old Nordic lexicon
  • The development of Old Nordic personal names
  • The development of Old Nordic place-names
  • Old Nordic types of texts I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian
  • Old Nordic types of texts II: Old Swedish and Old Danish
  • Translations and interference by translation in Old Nordic I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian
  • Translations and interference by translation in Old Nordic II: Old Swedish and Old Danish
• Old Nordic III: The ecology of language
  • Dialects and written language in Old Nordic I: Old Norwegian and Old Icelandic
  • Dialects and written language in Old Nordic II: Old Danish and Old Swedish
  • Language contact during the Old Nordic period I: with the British Isles, Frisia and the Hanseatic League
  • Language contact during the Old Nordic period II: with Eastern Europe
  • Language contact during the Old Nordic period III: The impact of Christianity on Old Nordic
  • History and development of Old Nordic outside the Scandinavia of today