[PDF] The Germanic Review eBook

Author : Ekkehard Konig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317799585

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Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.

Author : Matthias Friedrich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110701731

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Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material. But is the term meaningful, useful, or legitimate? The term, frequently applied to peoples, languages, and material culture found in non-Roman north-western and central Europe in classical antiquity, and to these phenomena in the western Roman Empire’s successor states, is often treated as a legitimate, all-encompassing name for the culture of these regions. Its usage is sometimes intended to suggest a shared social identity or ethnic affinity among those who produce these phenomena. Yet, despite decades of critical commentary that have highlighted substantial problems, its dominance of scholarship appears not to have been challenged. This edited volume, which offers contributions ranging from literary and linguistic studies to archaeology, and which span from the first to the sixteenth centuries AD, examines why the term remains so pervasive despite its problems, offering a range of alternative interpretative perspectives on the late and post-Roman worlds.

Author : Wayne Harbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1139461524

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Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. 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, and the extinct East Germanic languages. Unlike previous studies, it does not take a chronological or a language-by-language approach, organized instead around linguistic constructions and subsystems. Considering dialects alongside standard varieties, it provides a detailed account of topics such as case, word formation, sound systems, vowel length, syllable structure, the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the expression of tense and mood, and the syntax of the clause. Authoritative and comprehensive, this much-needed survey will be welcomed by scholars and students of the Germanic languages, as well as linguists across the many branches of the field.

Author : Francis Owen
Publisher : New York, Bookman Associates
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Civilization, Germanic
ISBN : 9780880295796

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Scholarly study of the Germanic people from prehistoric times to the Carolingian Empire.

Author : David E. Wellbery
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674015036

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'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.