The Germanic Languages
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The Germanic Languages
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Author : Ekkehard Konig
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
The Germanic Languages written by Ekkehard Konig and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.
The Germanic Languages
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Author : Wayne Harbert
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-12-21
The Germanic Languages written by Wayne Harbert and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-21 with Foreign Language Study categories.
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.
The Germanic Languages
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Author : Hans Frede Nielsen
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 1989-03-30
The Germanic Languages written by Hans Frede Nielsen and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-03-30 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The book is concerned especially with the debate surrounding the grouping of Germanic languages and with the research history of this controversial question. It discusses the methods applied to past attempts and outlines those aplicable to future research in the field.
General Characteristics Of The Germanic Languages
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Author : Antoine Meillet
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 2005
General Characteristics Of The Germanic Languages written by Antoine Meillet and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Antoine Meillet (1866-1936) is one of the most important linguists of all time
Language Contact And The Origins Of The Germanic Languages
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Author : Peter Schrijver
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-04
Language Contact And The Origins Of The Germanic Languages written by Peter Schrijver and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Linguistic Purism In The Germanic Languages
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Author : Nils Langer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-12-22
Linguistic Purism In The Germanic Languages written by Nils Langer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the layperson. Somehow, ordinary speakers with many different mother tongues and with no formal training in linguistics share certain beliefs about what language is, how it develops or should develop, whether it has good or bad qualities, etc. The topic of linguistic purism in its many realisations is the subject of this volume of 19 articles selected from the contributions presented at a conference at the University of Bristol in 2003. In particular, the articles deal with the relationship of purism to historical prescriptivism, e.g. the influence of grammarians in the 17th and 18th centuries, to nationhood, e.g. the instrumentalising of purism in the standardisation of Afrikaans or Luxembourgish, to modern society, e.g. the existence of puristic tendencies in computer chatrooms, to folk linguistics, e.g. lay perceptions of different varieties of English, and to academic linguistics, e.g. the presence of puristic notions in the historiography of German or English.
Standardization
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Author : Andrew R. Linn
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2002-12-31
Standardization written by Andrew R. Linn and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines. The papers cover a historical range from the Middle Ages to the present and a geographical range from South Africa to Iceland, but all fall into one of the following categories: 1) shaping and diffusing a standard language; 2) the relationship between standard and identity; 3) non-standardization, de-standardization and re-standardization.
The Determination Of Stages In The Historical Development Of The Germanic Languages By Morphological Criteria
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Author : Karen R. Bahnick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Determination Of Stages In The Historical Development Of The Germanic Languages By Morphological Criteria written by Karen R. Bahnick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Generative grammar categories.
A History Of The German Language
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Author : John T. Waterman
language : en
Publisher: Waveland Press
Release Date : 1991-03-01
A History Of The German Language written by John T. Waterman and has been published by Waveland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-03-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The most accessible, well-balanced history of the German language available! No comparable work is available in English or German that gives readers an adequate foundation in the methods, goals, and results of historical-comparative linguistics as they apply to the German language and its historical antecedents. Waterman’s monograph excels through its clear presentation of materials, the extensive use of charts and maps, and a well-organized bibliography. A wealth of examples documents a surprisingly broad review of German language issues.
Verb Movement And Expletive Subjects In The Germanic Languages
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Author : Sten Vikner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-04-13
Verb Movement And Expletive Subjects In The Germanic Languages written by Sten Vikner and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of Principles-and-Parameters to the study of comparative syntax. Several languages are considered, including less frequently discussed ones like Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, and Yiddish.