132. From Old Nordic to Early Modern Nordic: The language of the translations I: Icelandic and Norwegian translations

Astås, Reidar; Bandle, Oskar; Braunmüller, Kurt; Jahr, Ernst Håkon; Karker, Allan; Naumann, Hans-Peter; Teleman, Ulf; Elmevik, Lennart; Widmark, Gun

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“…20 This literary genealogy is pictured in Figure 2. Asta˚s (2005Asta˚s ( : 1198 comments that Gottskálksson worked primarily from Luther's German translation, using the Vulgate as a 'control text.' FIGURE 2.…”

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“…Accordingly, we might expect artifacts of these languages in his translation. Additionally, after returning to Iceland and beginning to conduct his translation, Gottskálksson had access to not only the Latin Vulgate and, purportedly, even Erasmus' Greek‐to‐Latin translation (Astås 2005), but also the German translation of the New Testament completed by Martin Luther in 1522, as evidenced by the fact that the forewords included in Gottskálksson's New Testament are translations of Luther's own prologues (Kvaran 2015: 25). This literary genealogy is pictured in Figure 2.…”

Section: The Role Of Contactmentioning

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“…This literary genealogy is pictured in Figure 2. Astås (2005: 1198) comments that Gottskálksson worked primarily from Luther's German translation, using the Vulgate as a ‘control text.’ Accordingly, Astås (2005) claims that Gottskálksson's translation style was simultaneously rote and creative—although he introduced several German loanwords into the text and was prone to verbatim translation, he nevertheless was as likely to produce simple, purist Icelandic as he was to write stylized, high‐register prose divorced from the vernacular. The artificiality of the language which Gottskálksson employed intentionally elevated the sacred text above idiomatic language.…”

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Translation‐Induced Interrogative Relativizers and Stability in Icelandic

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Throughout the history of Icelandic, invariant particles, which do not inflect for semantic or syntactic features of the antecedent, are the typical markers of relative clauses (Þráinsson 2007). Another, putatively foreign strategy—relativization with interrogative–relative pronouns—is archaic in Modern Icelandic, but is frequent between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a period featuring a high degree of literary translation from languages which themselves possessed interrogative–relativization strategies. In this paper, I examine both internal processes of grammaticalization and the effects of contact on the development of this strategy from Old‐to‐Early Modern Icelandic by comparing the translation of the morphosyntatic structures of relative clauses among the languages involved in this contact scenario: Icelandic, German, and Latin. Using the Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus (Wallenberg et al. 2011), I conduct a diachronic corpus study that quantifies the development of this relativization strategy. I argue that the proliferation of the Icelandic interrogative–relativization strategy is a contact phenomenon stimulated by pattern borrowing from (primarily) Latin, but contextualized and made possible by a state of systemic variability and instability in the relative paradigm in Early Modern Icelandic.

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Section: The Role Of Contactmentioning

confidence: 99%