In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal comp…
Concise Grammar of the Older Runic Inscriptions.
Altnordische philologie: Norwegen und Island
"The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture explores the transformation of Yiddish from a low-status vernacular to the medium of a complex modern culture, and examines the efforts of east European Jews to establish their linguistic distinctiveness as part of their struggle for national …
Nach zwei Jahrzehnten wird eine durchgreifende Neugestaltung der »Gotischen Grammatik« (vormals Braune/Ebbinghaus) vorgelegt. Die neue Auflage bleibt der zweifachen Funktion des Buches - Studiengrammatik für den akademischen Unterricht und Referenzwerk für die Forschung - verpfl…
This book presents a comprehensive account of the phonology of Swedish describes its history, segmental phonology, lower prosodic phonology, stress and tone, morphology-phonology interactions, higher prosodic phonology, intonation, and regional variations. Its approach is data-o…
Basic Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible basic reference grammar and related exercises in one volume, and covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their first year of learning Swedish. Each of the 25 units discusses one or more gra…
Dutch is a peculiar language in that certain nouns have more than one gender. This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates this anomaly. First assigned a lexicological classification, the DGNs are then analysed contextually by means …
Although the field of polarity is well researched, this monograph offers a new take on polarity sensitivity that both challenges and incorporates previous theories. Based primarily on Swedish data, it presents new solutions to long-standing problems, such as the non-complementar…
This book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers a continuum of mutually intelligible languages spoken in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and parts of Finland. It is descriptive in nature, with examples drawn from reference grammars, research lit…
