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| Author | : Michael T. Putnam |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1176 |
| Release | : 2020-04-16 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1108386350 |
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The first comprehensive overview of the structure of modern Germanic languages. Written by a team of internationally-renowned experts, it is a vital resource for students and researchers investigating the Germanic family of languages and dialects, covering key topics such as phonology, morphology, syntax, heritage and minority languages.
| Author | : Ekkehard Konig |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 648 |
| Release | : 2013-12-16 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1317799585 |
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Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.
| Author | : Rosina Lippi-Green |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 1996-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027236410 |
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This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical linguistics (by Garry Davis and Gregory Iverson, Mary Niepokuj, Neil Jacobs, Edgar Polomé, and David Fertig). The authors start from current theoretical discussions in syntactic and diachronic research, using theory to address longstanding but still current problems in Germanic linguistics, from clitic placement and verb-second phenomena through the Verschärfung to the Twaddellian view of umlaut. Each contribution relies on careful sifting of data situated in the relevant comparative context, Germanic, Indo-European and cross-linguistic.
| Author | : Wayne Harbert |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 2006-12-21 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1139461524 |
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Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world languages such as English and German (West Germanic), the Scandinavian (North Germanic) languages, and the extinct East Germanic languages. Unlike previous studies, it does not take a chronological or a language-by-language approach, organized instead around linguistic constructions and subsystems. Considering dialects alongside standard varieties, it provides a detailed account of topics such as case, word formation, sound systems, vowel length, syllable structure, the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the expression of tense and mood, and the syntax of the clause. Authoritative and comprehensive, this much-needed survey will be welcomed by scholars and students of the Germanic languages, as well as linguists across the many branches of the field.
| Author | : R.D. Fulk |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 438 |
| Release | : 2018-09-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027263132 |
Download A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared, with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage. Students will find the book an informative introduction and a bibliographically instructive point of departure for intensive research in the numerous issues that remain profoundly contested in early Germanic language history.
| Author | : Peter Schrijver |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2013-12-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134254490 |
Download Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the Germanic languages as a history of its speakers. It focuses on the role that language contact has played in creating the Germanic languages, between the first millennium BC and the crucially important early medieval period. Chapters on the origins of English, German, Dutch, and the Germanic language family as a whole illustrate how the history of the sounds of these languages provide a key that unlocks the secret of their genesis: speakers of Latin, Celtic and Balto-Finnic switched to speaking Germanic and in the process introduced a 'foreign accent' that caught on and spread at the expense of types of Germanic that were not affected by foreign influence. The book is aimed at linguists, historians, archaeologists and anyone who is interested in what languages can tell us about the origins of their speakers.
| Author | : Janne Bondi Johannessen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2015-08-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027268193 |
Download Germanic Heritage Languages in North America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.
| Author | : Elmer H. Antonsen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 405 |
| Release | : 2011-04-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110885522 |
Download Runes and Germanic Linguistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The older runic inscriptions (ca. AD 150 - 450) represent the earliest attestation of any Germanic language. The close relationship of these inscriptions to the archaic Mediterranean writing traditions is demonstrated through the linguistic and orthographic analysis presented here. The extraordinary importance of these inscriptions for a proper understanding of the prehistory and early history of the present-day Germanic languages, including English, becomes abundantly clear once the accu-mulation of unfounded claims of older mythological and cultic studies is cleared away.
| Author | : John Ole Askedal |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2015-06-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027268231 |
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This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on themes pertaining to the aim and scope of the symposium. All papers cover central aspects of the early contact between Germanic and some of its Indo-European and non-Indo-European linguistic neighbours; and, in certain cases, aspects involving internal Germanic language contact.
| Author | : Irmengard Rauch |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2011-06-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110856441 |
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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
