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The Germanic Languages : Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations /
"" The Germanic Languages "" may easily be read by scholars with limited knowledge of Germanic philology. It provides a solid introduction to the debate generated by attempts at classification. In addition, it contains an extensive bibliography of related works and pays considera...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
The University of Alabama Press,
1989.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Abbreviations; I. The Germanic Languages; 1. Present-day extension; 2. Earliest attestation; 3. The early runic language; II. Germanic: An Indo-European Language Group; 1. Indo-European; 2. The position of Germanic within Indo-European; 3. Linguistic features characteristic of Germanic; III. Germanic Tribal Movements; 1. The Goths; 2. The Upper and Central German tribes; 3. The Anglo-Saxons; IV. The Grouping of the Germanic Languages; 1. Early attempts at Germanic dialect grouping; 2. Wrede, Maurer and the West Germanic problem; 3. Schwarz and his critics.
- 4. Recent attempts at Germanic dialect groupingV. Methodological Deliberations; 1. Stammbaum theory, wave theory and substratum theory; 2. Dialect geography; 3. Parallels (partly) attributable to other factors; 4. Closing remarks; References; Index.