Comparative studies in early Germanic languages: with a focus on verbal categories
by Diewald, Gabriele, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Pécs, Kahlas-Tarkka, Leena, Wischer, Ilse, Workshop on the "Contrastive Study of the Verbal Categories and Their Grammaticalisation in Old English and Old High German" 16 (Pécs, Hungary), International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, ICEHL, Pécs, Hungary
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This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories…
This is an examination of the Old English version of Bede's 'Historia ecclesiastica' and its reception in the Middle Ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective.
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