The Big Book Of Christmas Eve presents the adventures of a holiday crusader and her Sugar Plum Fairy helpers, Holly, Noel and Carol, as they strive to bring joy, peace and Christmas cheer to the modern world, sorely in need of it. This edition is a collection of the Christmas Eve comic book adventures culled from the past thirteen years. Featured in this volume are Eve's origin and her first battle with arch foe, the legendary Black Peter... as told by Ol' Tannenbaum, the official talking Christmas Tree. Visit with soon-to-be favorite holiday characters, Randolph The Green-Nosed Reindeer, Tinselbottom The Elf and special guest star, Santa Claus! Then, Eve stars in three seasonal sagas, battling the monsterous Elfinstein and contending with three out-of-work spirits in "Old Familiar Haunts", dealing with thermostatic extremes in "Squawkin' In A Winter Wonderland"... and learning the value of new beginnings in "What Are You Doing New Year, New Years Eve". Then comes a bevvy of springtime tales featuring Christmas Eve, Holly, Noel and Carol, The Easter Bunny, Christmas Boy and an assortment of Mother Goose favorites... oh, and Leprechauns... did we mention the Leprechauns..? Finally, When Ol' Number Nine, The Ornament Express, arrives at the Christmas Village depot without engineer Choo Choo Charlie Fruitcake or conductor Lucius J. Poinsettia and minus all the ornaments that the towns all along the line have collected for Santa, Christmas Eve and the Sugar Plum Fairies, Holly, Noel and Carol, are thrust into the midst of one of the most puzzling mysteries in their heroic holiday careers! Can Eve and the girls overcome The Ripper, The Nog and the U-Buy Bandits and solve their mysterious conundrum? And what role does Station Master Gus Greensleeves play in all the skullduggery..? Holiday hijinks that are sure to become treasured traditions for young and old alike!
Work for the series »Placenames of the Isle of Man« is undertaken under the auspices of the Manx Place-Name Survey, set up at the University of Mannheim in 1988. The survey falls into two parts: material collected from a) oral, and b) documentary sources. Place-name material, mostly Manx Gaelic, for the first part, was collected on sound-recordings or in phonetic script 1989-1992 from some 200 informants, almost exclusively from the farming community. The second part contains material drawn from documentary sources of 13th-20th century date, but mostly from 17th-19th centuries. This is the final volume in the series »Placenames of the Isle of Man«. Six volumes, based on the Sheadings (districts) of Glenfaba, Michael, Ayre, Garff, Middle and Rushen, are already published. Volume 7 includes the town of Douglas (capital), place-name and field-name addenda, as well as complete indexes of place-name elements, place-names, field-names, and personal names. In addition are the following four articles: »Place-Names and the Physical and Human Geography of the Isle of Man: an Overview« (Peter Darvey), »Pre-Scandinavian Place-Names in the Isle of Man« (George Broderick), »The Scandinavian Element in the Place-Names of the Isle of Man« (Gillian Fellows-Jensen), and »Common Elements in Manx Place-Names« (George Broderick). To complete the volume are 17 parish maps containing the traditional land divisions of treen and quarterland.
Volume 5 comprises the three central and eastern parishes of Kirk Braddan, Kirk Marown, and Kirk Santan. The material appears in alphabetical form with discussion of any problems of interpretation and a listing of the elements making up the names. This volume yields name-forms and elements not found in Manx literature or dictionaries. As all but a handful of names predate the Scandinavian period (9th-13th centuries) and as documentary material from that time till the 16th century is largely absent, the testimony of place-names is important for the distribution of name elements reflecting the geography and showing patterns of settlement, whether Celtic, Scandinavian, etc, and for comparative place-name research in adjacent areas, particularly Ireland, south-western Scotland, and northern England.
Work for the series Placenames of the Isle of Man is undertaken under the auspices of the Manx Place-Name Survey, set up at the University of Mannheim in 1988. The survey falls into two parts: material collected from a) oral, and b) documentary sources. Placename material, mostly Manx Gaelic, for the first part, was collected on sound-recordings or in phonetic script 1989-1992 from some 200 informants, almost exclusively from the farming community. The second part contains material drawn from documentary sources of 13th-20th century date, but mostly from 17th-19th centuries. The whole is to appear in seven volumes, the first six based on each of the six Sheadings (districts) as follows: Vol. 1 - Sheading of Glenfaba, Vol. 2 - Sheading of Michael, Vol. 3 - Sheading of Ayre, Vol. 4 - Sheading of Garff, Vol. 5 - Sheading of Middle, Vol. 6 - Sheading of Rushen, Vol. 7 - Douglas. The last volume also contains a detailed linguistic discussion of the corpus, a full and comprehensive index, as well as a series of element distribution maps and maps of the 17 parishes showing the traditional land divisions upon which the names are based.
Work for the series Placenames of the Isle of Man is undertaken under the auspices of the Manx Place-Name Survey, set up at the University of Mannheim in 1988. The survey falls into two parts: material collected from a) oral, and b) documentary sources. Placename material, mostly Manx Gaelic, for the first part, was collected on sound-recordings or in phonetic script 1989-1992 from some 200 informants, almost exclusively from the farming community. The second part contains material drawn from documentary sources of 13th-20th century date, but mostly from 17th-19th centuries. The whole is to appear in seven volumes, the first six based on each of the six Sheadings (districts) as follows: Vol. 1 - Sheading of Glenfaba, Vol. 2 - Sheading of Michael, Vol. 3 - Sheading of Ayre, Vol. 4 - Sheading of Garff, Vol. 5 - Sheading of Middle, Vol. 6 - Sheading of Rushen, Vol. 7 - Douglas. The last volume also contains a detailed linguistic discussion of the corpus, a full and comprehensive index, as well as a series of element distribution maps and maps of the 17 parishes showing the traditional land divisions upon which the names are based.
The fourth and final volume of the Super Duper anthology series is here! Follow the exploits of Mayhem, Inc in two full length adventures. Heroes who have banded together for the greater good, they've never met a problem they couldn't make worse... with their fists! And marvel at the solo exploits of Strongarm Armstrong in a serialized story in print for the very first time! Lastly, chuckle along with the Winter Wonderland excitement at the North Pole with Happy Holliday and Vinnie The Blue-Rumped Caribou (cousin to the red-nosed one). It's fun, fun, fun 'til Daddy takes the T-Bird away! Discover why cartoonist George Broderick, Jr. is fast becoming "One of the most beloved characters in American folklore"!
Language death is an aspect of language contact which has occupied the interest of linguists from the past twenty-five years or so. Although the phenomenon of language death is occuring all over the world very few instances of it have been dealt with both from a sociolinguistic and formal linguistic standpoint. Those that spring to mind are the works of Nancy Dorian on East Sutherland Gaelic and Hans-Jürgen Sasse on the Albanian dialect of Arvanítika in Greece. In both instances it is dialects of languages that are treated and not complete languages themselves. The study of language death in the Isle of Man deals with the decline and extinction of Manx Gaelic as a community language, and as a language in its own right. After setting the scenario of language death this study then looks into the sociolinguistic reasons which led to the decline and death of Manx in Man. There then follows a detailed look into the study of language and language use in Man, from early observations to the present day. This section includes a detailed description of phonetic and sound recordings made of Manx over the period. This leads to an in-depth study into the formal linguistic situation of Manx, tracing the development in its phonology, morphophonology, morphology, morphosyntax and syntax, idiom and lexicon, which ultimately led to its demise. As language revival is in itself a facet of language death, the study concludes with a short excursus into the various efforts at language revival and maintenance in Man, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day. The appendices include Professor Carl Marstrander's diary of his visits to Man (1929-33) published for the first time. The diary contains percipient observations of the state of Manx in its final phase. In short, this study looks in some detail into the mechanics of language death on a once thriving and vibrant community language.
The legends of Christmas are many and vary from culture to culture. This bookcontains modern interpretations of some of the more well-known of the holidaytraditions in comic strip form.
The First Lady Of Yuletide Cheer in her very first prose novel! Watch the champion of Christmas and her Sugar Plum Fairy companions, Holly, Noel and Carol, as they chase a treacherous yeti named Charlie through the mystical realms of "The Fade", a cornucopia of kingdoms outside of time, in an effort to recover Santa's stolen Golden Garland, a festive holiday swag that gives him free passage through the darker kingdoms of The Fade. Meet many historical and legendary characters as you've never seen them before... and, oh, those druids!
Volume 6 comprises the three southerly parishes of Kirk Malew (including the town and former capital Castletown and the large village of Ballasalla), Kirk Arbory, and Kirk Christ Rushen (including the Calf of Man island). The material appears in alphabetical form with discussion of any problems of interpretation, and a listing of the various elements making up the names. This volume yields name-forms and elements not found in Manx literature or dictionaries. In addition, reinterpretation of some of the names now places them in the Early Christian period of Manx history (6th-7th centuries), thus adding them to the small list of names predating the Scandinavian period (9th-13th centuries). As documentary material from that time to the 16th century is largely absent, the testimony of placenames is important for the distribution of name elements reflecting the topography and patterns of settlement, and for the development of Manx Gaelic during that period. It also helps to contribute towards comparative placename study in adjacent areas, particularly Ireland, southwest Scotland and northwest England.
Collecting the largely wordless Stardust & Thor comic stories about a superhero and his puppy. With a foreword by noted comics columnist and author, Tony Isabella.
Volume 5 comprises the three central and eastern parishes of Kirk Braddan, Kirk Marown, and Kirk Santan. The material appears in alphabetical form with discussion of any problems of interpretation, and a listing of the elements making up the names. This volume yields name-forms and elements not found in Manx literature or dictionaries. As all but a handful of names predate the Scandinavian period (9th-13th centuries) and as documentary material from that time till the 16th century is largely absent, the testimony of place-names is important for the distribution of name elements reflecting the geography and showing patterns of settlement, whether Celtic, Scandinavian, etc, and for comparative place-name research in adjacent areas, particularly Ireland, south-western Scotland, and northern England.
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