I-XII -- Programme of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Douglas, Isle of Man -- List of the authors' addresses -- Introduction -- A. CONTACTS IN THE ISLE OF MAN -- MANX - LATIN - OLD NORSE - OLD FRENCH - ENGLISH -- 1. The decline and death of Manx Gaelic -- 2. Foreign elements in the Manx vocabulary -- 3. The place-names of the Isle of Man -- 4. Prosodic change in Manx and lexical diffusion -- B. WALES -- OLD WELSH - OLD IRISH - LATIN -- 5. The Cambridge Juvencus Glosses - Evidence of Hiberno-Welsh literary interaction? -- C. CORNWALL -- CORNISH - ENGLISH -- 6. The Cornishness of Cornwall's English -- D. PAN-CELTIC - ENGLISH -- 7. The Colour systems of the modern Celtic languages - Effects of language contact -- E. CONTINENTAL CONTACTS -- CONTINENTAL GERMANIC - OLD ENGLISH -- 8. The Straubing Heliand-Fragment and the Old English dialects -- ANGLO-NORMAN - MIDDLE ENGLISH -- 9. Towards a reassessment of "Anglo-Norman influence on English place-names" -- F. CONTACTS IN ENGLAND -- BRITTONIC - OLD ENGLISH -- 10. Origins of the non-standard relativizers WHAT and AS in English -- OLD SCANDINAVIAN - OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH -- 11. The study of Scandinavian in England: A survey of Swedish contributions including ongoing research in East Anglia -- 12. Scandinavian influence on the place-names of England -- 13. Compatibility and incompatibility - three important periods of English-Danish onomastic contact -- 14. The incorporation of Old Norse pronouns into Middle English. Suppletion by Ioan -- 15. Scandinavian English: a creole in context -- G. ORKNEY AND SHETLAND -- NORN - SCOTS -- 16. Reflections on the structure and the demise of Orkney and Shetland Norn -- 17. Norn-Scots: a complicated language contact situation in Shetland -- Η. THE WESTERN ISLES (HEBRIDES) AND SKYE -- GAELIC - OLD NORSE -- 18. Norse-Gaelic contact in the west of Lewis: the place-name evidence -- SCOTS GAELIC - SCOTS - (STANDARD) ENGLISH -- 19. Language-maintenance and viability in contemporary Gaelic communities: Skye and the Western Isles today -- I. SCOTLAND (MAINLAND) -- SCOTS - (STANDARD) ENGLISH -- 20. Language contact and Scots -- J. IRELAND -- IRISH - ENGLISH -- 21. Code-switching vs. borrowing in Modern Irish -- 22. Contact phenomena in the phonology of Irish and English in Ireland -- 23. Syntactic variation in Hiberno-English -- 24. Subordinating and in Hiberno-English syntax: Irish or English origin? -- 25. Bilingualism and writing in the Irish Gaeltacht and the Grisons (Switzerland) with special reference to Irish and English -- Index -- Index of personal names -- Index of languages