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Author | : Columbia University (N.Y.). Department of Germanic Languages |
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Release | : 1930 |
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The Germanic Languages
Author | : Ekkehard Konig |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1317799585 |
Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.
The Germanic Languages
Author | : Wayne Harbert |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2006-12-21 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1139461524 |
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.
Interrogating the ‘Germanic’
Author | : Matthias Friedrich |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2020-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110701731 |
Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material. But is the term meaningful, useful, or legitimate? The term, frequently applied to peoples, languages, and material culture found in non-Roman north-western and central Europe in classical antiquity, and to these phenomena in the western Roman Empire’s successor states, is often treated as a legitimate, all-encompassing name for the culture of these regions. Its usage is sometimes intended to suggest a shared social identity or ethnic affinity among those who produce these phenomena. Yet, despite decades of critical commentary that have highlighted substantial problems, its dominance of scholarship appears not to have been challenged. This edited volume, which offers contributions ranging from literary and linguistic studies to archaeology, and which span from the first to the sixteenth centuries AD, examines why the term remains so pervasive despite its problems, offering a range of alternative interpretative perspectives on the late and post-Roman worlds.
A New History of German Literature
Author | : David E. Wellbery |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1038 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780674015036 |
'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.
Early Germanic Literature and Culture
Author | : Brian Murdoch |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781571131997 |
A collection of fresh essays examining the wide scope and significance of early Germanic culture and literature. The first volume of this set views the development of writing in German with respect to broad aspects of the early Germanic past, drawing on a range of disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, and philology in addition toliterary history. The first part considers the whole concept of Germanic antiquity and the way in which it has been approached, examines classical writings about Germanic origins and the earliest Germanic tribes, and looks at thetwo great influences on the early Germanic world: the confrontation with the Roman Empire and the displacement of Germanic religion by Christianity. A chapter on orality -- the earliest stage of all literature -- provides a bridgeto the earliest Germanic writings. The second part of the book is devoted to written Germanic -- rather than German -- materials, with a series of chapters looking first at the Runic inscriptions, then at Gothic, the first Germanic language to find its way onto parchment (in Ulfilas's Bible translation). The topic turns finally to what we now understand as literature, with general surveys of the three great areas of early Germanic literature: Old Norse, Old English, and Old High and Low German. A final chapter is devoted to the Old Saxon Heliand. Contributors: T. M. Andersson, Heinrich Beck, Graeme Dunphy, Klaus Düwel, G. Ronald Murphy, Adrian Murdoch, Brian Murdoch, Rudolf Simek, Herwig Wolfram. Brian Murdoch and Malcolm Read both teach in the German Department of the University of Stirling in Scotland.