Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian languages. It takes its inspiration from the idea of…
German and Dutch in Contrast
'As Criser and Malakaj convincingly argue, in spite of frequent critical assessments of "the state of German Studies" over the last three decades, very little seems to change. This volume, on the other hand, has the potential to transform the field. Its contributors, by bringing…
"Die Untersuchung von Zeitungen wurde in der sprachgeschichtlichen Forschung bisher nur am Rande berücksichtigt. Allerdings erreichten Zeitungen schon im 18. Jahrhundert ein grösseres Publikum als jede andere Kommunikationsform. Die "Zeitungssprache" übte auf die Entwicklung des…