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The Germanic Strong Verbs : Foundations and Development of a New System.

As a contribution to the ongoing discussion of the genesis of the Germanic language, this book investigates the strong verbs of Proto-Germanic using a new approach that combines historical and typological morphology with quantitative etymology. It reveals that the morphological peculiarities and the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mailhammer, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 183.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:As a contribution to the ongoing discussion of the genesis of the Germanic language, this book investigates the strong verbs of Proto-Germanic using a new approach that combines historical and typological morphology with quantitative etymology. It reveals that the morphological peculiarities and the etymological problems of the strong verbs have been considerably underestimated. The first part of the book explains how drastically the inherited verb system was transformed when it was uniformized and simplified around a functionalized verbal ablaut. In particular, it is shown that the systemic p.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages)
ISBN:9783110198782
3110198789