10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEST GERMANIC»
Discover the use of
West Germanic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
West Germanic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Written by a team of international specialists, this unique reference work provides an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.
Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera, 2013
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Current Trends in
West Germanic Etymological Lexicography: ...
A collection of original articles by leading scholars in the field dealing with practical and theoretical problems in the compiling of recently completed or in-progress etymological dictionaries of Modern Dutch, German, English and Frisian.
Rolf H jr Bremmer, Jan van den Berg, 1993
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The Evolution of
Germanic Phonological Systems: ...
This work expounds a new approach to fundamental problems of phonology, based on applying principals of general systemics to linguistic exploration.
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Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and Diachronic
Loss of the hardening component of Verschärfung in West Germanic then derives
from a formal simplification of the overall process in which the resulting syllable
contact is further improved by the apparent syllabification of coda glides.
Rosina Lippi-Green, Joe Salmons, 1996
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, ...
The dropping of final z is common to all West Germanic languages, and besides
being one of their principal characteristics, took place before any other dialectic
difference arose : 0. H. G. wiis==Goth. uoileis (Lat. vtlit). This z became Goth, s
but ...
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Studies in Comparative
Germanic Syntax
JARICH HOEKSTRA PREPOSITION STRANDING AND RESUMPTIVITY IN
WEST GERMANIC ABSTRACT. This paper addresses the phenomenon of
preposition stranding in Frisian and some other West Germanic languages,
mainly Dutch ...
H. Haider, S. Olsen, S. Vikner, 1995
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Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form: Scrambling in the ...
Prominent among these are: the inconsistent behaviour of German coherent infinitives with respect to extraction of their internal arguments; the existence of a less 'liberal' type of 'Scrambling' within topicalised VPs; the link between ...
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An Elementary Old English Grammar (early
West Saxon) ...
(5) Germanic iu<eu, just as t<e, before i or j. Hence no Germanic e or eu, but i
and tu, came down to prehistoric OE. in words in which there was originally a
following i or j. 99. The West Germanic (see § 1) system of stressed vowels
differed in ...
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Analysis of the Scandinavian Loanwords in the Aldredian ...
Thus, many have taken the runic inscriptions from before 550 as evidence for a
surprisingly late break-up of common Germanic (excluding East Germanic) into
North and West Germanic, whereas others, such as Kuhn (1956-1957) or
Haugen ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEST GERMANIC»
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West Germanic is used in the context of the following news items.
Swear words, etymology, and the history of English
The peasants, who served, spoke a West Germanic language, Old English, the ancestor of both modern English and modern German. The nobles, who ruled, ... «OUPblog, Jul 15»
Open your mind to a changing world
... understanding of at least one of the nine indigenous languages (Afrikaans linguistically belongs to the west Germanic group of languages) should be standard ... «Independent Online, May 15»
Feast your eyes on this beautiful linguistic family tree
An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), ... «The Week Magazine, Oct 14»
German should be easier than French, but is it?
Both German and English belong to the West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages, so their relationship is close. The Anglo-Saxon language (Old ... «The Munich Eye, Aug 14»
Johnson: What might have been
Any language in contact with other languages borrows words. And English has always been, of course, a master borrower. A west Germanic language brought ... «The Economist, Jan 14»
Examining Edenics, the Theory That English (and Every Other …
English is a West Germanic language brought to Britain by German invaders some 1,500 years ago. German in turn comes from Latin, which is an Italic ... «Tablet Magazine, Oct 13»
Grappling With Yiddish Words That Punch Above Their Weight
Germanic's offspring can be divided into East Germanic, North Germanic and West Germanic. East Germanic gave birth to languages like Gothic, Vandalic and ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Apr 13»
Two Common Mistakes In English Grammar May Have Come From …
LAST WEEK we looked at Jan Terje Faarlund's idea that "English is a Scandinavian language." He thinks that West Germanic Old English died out in Britain, and ... «Business Insider, Dec 12»
Professors claim the English language derives from Scandinavia
He points out that Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, is a West Germanic language, which the Angles and Saxons brought with them from northern Germany and ... «Phys.Org, Dec 12»
