A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages (Studies in Germanic Linguistics) - Hardcover

Fulk, R.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027263124 ISBN 13: 9789027263124

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018

Synopsis

Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared, with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage. Students will find the book an informative introduction and a bibliographically instructive point of departure for intensive research in the numerous issues that remain profoundly contested in early Germanic language history.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 9027263124
• ISBN 13: 9789027263124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 436