1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00080491

Autore

BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY

Titolo

Proceedings of the twentieth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, february 18-21, 1994 : Special session on historical issues in african linguistics / edited by Kevin E. Moore, David A. Peterson, Comfort Wentum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : Berkeley Linguistics Society, c1994

Descrizione fisica

viii, 149 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

496

Soggetti

LINGUE AFRICANE - Congressi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911046589803321

Autore

Arnbjörnsdóttir Birna

Titolo

Icelandic Heritage in North America

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winnipeg : , : University of Manitoba Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781772840230

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

ThráinssonHöskuldur

Úlfar Bragason

Disciplina

971

Soggetti

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Scandinavian Languages (Other)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Moving a Language between Continents: Icelandic Language Communities 1870-1914 -- Chapter 2. Icelanders and America: What is it to be Vestur-



Íslendingur? -- Chapter 3. Acculturation on Their Own Terms: The Social Networks of Political Radicals among Icelandic Immigrants in Canada in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4. The Barnason Brothers in Nebraska: Two Pioneer Farmers -- Chapter 5. Ralph E. Halldorson and the Great War -- Chapter 6. Icelandic Immigrants, Modernity, and Winnipeg in Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran's "Hopes" -- Chapter 7. Another Emigrant Ship Crossing the Atlantic: The Poetics of Migration in the Poetry of Undína and Stephan G. Stephansson -- Chapter 8. The Young Icelander Grows Up: Nationalism and Ethnic Identity in Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason's Life and Work -- Chapter 9. Icelandic-Canadian Oral Lore: New Life in a New Land and How the Women's Tales May Shed Light on the Classification of the Edda Poems -- Chapter 10. Raven Tracks across the Prairies: Icelandic Immigration and Manuscript Culture in the Canadian West -- Chapter 11. Word Meanings in North American Icelandic: More North American or More Icelandic? -- Chapter 12. Understanding Complex Sentences in a Heritage Language -- Chapter 13. "And the Dog Is Sleeping Too": The Use of the Progressive in North American Icelandic -- Chapter 14. Language and Identity: The Case of North American Icelandic -- Chapter 15. The Heritage Language Project: Impact and Implications -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.