| Title: | Naming and multilingualism – Swedish-Finnish personal designations in medieval charters |
| Author: | Oliver Blomqvist |
| Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a III-a: Conventional / unconventional in onomastics, p. 85 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-543-671-8 |
| Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
| Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | This paper aims to analyze Swedish-Finnish mixed-language personal designations in medieval charters from Finland from the perspective of code- switching. A data set of 718 locative adverbials containing Finnish toponyms is related to empirical findings in the morphosyntax of modern Finnish-English code-switching. I argue that the morphosyntactic marking of Finnish toponyms in the medieval charters is concordant with syntactic patterns in modern code- switching. In earlier scholarship, this language-mixing was thought to be the result of linguistic confusion. The present results would indicate that the medieval scribes of Finland in fact were fluent code-switchers that used multilingual resources to their advantage. |
| Key words: | multilingualism, Middle Ages, Swedish, Finnish, anthroponyms |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf |
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