Language Change and Language Structure
Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 2011
XI, 346 pages
978-3-11-088657-3 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2010
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Num. figs. and tables
Num. figs. and tables
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54,26 MB
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978-3-11-088657-3 (9783110886573)
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Language Change and Language Structure
Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective
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Content
- Intro
- The development of the runic script and its relationship to Germanic phonological history
- Some typological tendencies in the development of the noun phrase in Germanic languages
- On comparatives in English and other languages
- Sentences with initial adverbials in the law of Magnus Lagabøter with particular emphasis on the position of the subject
- The fortunes of the Latin-type accusative and infinitive construction in Dutch and English compared
- Typological differences between English and German morphology and their causes
- The distribution of subject properties and the acquisition of subjecthood in the West Scandinavian languages
- Ingerid Dal's views on Old Saxon in the light of new evidence
- Kuhn's laws and rise of verb-second syntax
- A note on Old English and Old Norse initial adverbials and word order with special reference to sentence adverbials
- Dating the division between High and Low Germanic: A summary of arguments
- On the subject of some nominativeless sentences in Old Germanic
- Subject Index
