The Germanic Languages: Origins and Early Dialectal InterrelationsA revised and translated version of De germanske sprog. Baggrund og gruppe'ring (Odense University Press, 1979), which has been out of print for several years The book is especially concerned with the grouping of the Germanic languages: with the research history of this much-debated question and with a discussion of the methods applied to past attempts and indeed applicable to future research in the field. |
Contents
IndoEuropean | 15 |
Germanic Tribal Movements | 35 |
Methodological Deliberations | 109 |
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The Germanic Languages: Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations Hans Frede Nielsen Limited preview - 1989 |
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6th centuries Alemanni Anglo-Saxon Antonsen attested Auflage Baltic Bavarian Brøndum-Nielsen Celtic century A.D. consonant Danish deutsche Dutch earliest early runic East Elbe emigration English and Old exhibit forms fricatives geographical Germanen Germanic dialect grouping Germanic group Germanic languages Germanic tribes germanischen Goten Gothic and Old Goths guages H.F. Nielsen i-mutation Icelandic Illyrian Indo-European languages Ingveonic innovations isoglosses Jutland Krahe Kuhn Langobardi lexical linguistic loss of nasal Low Franconian Low German Makaev manic Maurer Middle morphological Myres North and West North Germanic North Sea Germanic North-West Germanic Northern Germany Old English Old Frisian Old High German Old Low Franconian Old Norse Old Saxon origin parallels phonological Polomé Proto-Germanic river-names Rösel runic inscriptions Scandinavian Schirmunski Schleicher's scholars Schwarz shared Slavic Southern Sprache Suebi suffix Tacitus theory tribal umlaut Urheimat verbs vowel West Germanic West Germanic languages Wrede