The Germanic LanguagesJohan van der Auwera (ed), Ekkehard König (ed) Taylor & Francis, 1994 - 631 pagina's This text surveys 12 Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish. It provides a chapter-length description of each language focusing on the structure of the languages as they are spoken today, but also giving history and development. |
Inhoudsopgave
List of Contributors | 4 |
Suzanne Romaine Merton College University of Oxford Oxford | 16 |
Gothic and the Reconstruction of ProtoGermanic | 19 |
Old and Middle Scandinavian | 38 |
Old and Middle Continental West Germanic | 72 |
Old and Middle English | 110 |
Icelandic | 142 |
Faroese | 190 |
German | 349 |
Yiddish | 388 |
Pennsylvania German | 420 |
Dutch | 439 |
Afrikaans | 478 |
Frisian | 505 |
English | 532 |
Germanic Creoles | 566 |
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accusative adjectival adjectives adverbial Afrikaans auxiliary Bokmål clitic complements compound consonant constituent constructions creoles Danish dative declension dialects diphthongs direct object distinction element ending example Faroese feminine finite verb forms fricatives Frisian function gender genitive Germanic languages grammatical indefinite indicative infinitive inflectional interrogative lexical linguistic Low German main clauses masculine Middle Dutch Middle English Middle Low German modal morpheme morphological negation neuter nominative non-finite Norwegian noun phrase occur Old English Old High German Old Norse Old Saxon Old Scandinavian OSax passive past participle pattern personal pronouns phonetic phonological pidgin plural position preceding predicative preposed prepositional phrase present preterite Proto-Germanic relative clauses Scandinavian languages semantic sentence singular speakers spoken stem stød stress strong verbs subjunctive subordinate clauses suffix Swedish syntactic Table third-person Tok Pisin types unstressed syllables variation verbal voiceless weak verbs word order Yiddish