Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography

Contents: Steffan Davies/Nils Langer/Wim Vandenbussche: Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography: Interdisciplinary Problems and Opportunities - Patrick Honeybone: History and Historical Linguistics: Two Types of Cognitive Reconstruction? - Nicholas M. Wolf: History and Linguistics: The Irish Language as a Case Study in an Interdisciplinary Approach to Culture - Brian D. Joseph: Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: Strange Bedfellows or Natural Friends? - Nicola McLelland: From Humanist History to Linguistic Theory: The Case of the Germanic Rootword - Agnete Nesse: Editorial Practices and Language Choice: 'Low German Language Monuments' in Norway - Robert Evans: Official Languages: A Brief Prehistory - Tomasz Kamusella: Classifying the Slavic Languages, or the Politics of Classification - Jos© del Valle: Linguistic History and the Development of Normative Regimes: The Royal Spanish Academy's Disputed Transatlantic Authority - Juan R. Valdez: Colouring Language: Pedro Henr­quez Ure±a's Representations of Spanish and Dominican Identity - Laura Villa: 'Because When Governments Speak, They Are Not Always Right': National Construction and Orthographic Conflicts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain - Gijsbert Rutten/Rik Vosters: As Many Norms as There Were Scribes? Language History, Norms and Usage in the Southern Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century - Anneleen Vanden Boer: Language and Nation: The Case of the German-Speaking Minority in Belgium - Richard Ingham: The Decline of Bilingual Competence in French in Medieval England: Evidence from the PROME Database - Rembert Eufe: Merovingian Coins and Their Inscriptions: A Challenge to Linguists and Historians - Remco Knooihuizen: The Use of Historical Demography for Historical Sociolinguistics: The Case of Dunkirk - Judith Nobels/Marijke van der Wal: Linking Words to Writers: Building a Reliable Corpus for Historical Sociolinguistic Research - Helmut Graser/B. Ann Tlusty: Sixteenth-Century Street Songs and Language History 'From Below' - Juan Manuel Hern¡ndez-Campoy: Mood Distinction in Late Middle English: The End of the Inflectional Subjunctive - Lisa Carroll-Davies: Identifying the Enemy: Using a CDA and Corpus Approach to Analyse Sandinista Strategies of Naming - Krassimir Stoyanov: Ritualized Slogan Lexis in the Bulgarian Press during the Times of Violent Contradiction in Ideologies (1944-1947) - Kristine Horner/Melanie Wagner: Remembering World War II and Legitimating Luxembourgish as the National Language: Consensus or Conflict? - Michela Giordano/Federica Falchi: John Stuart Mill and Salvatore Morelli: Language as a Social Tool in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Italy.