"This volume brings together eleven studies on the history of language and writing in the North Sea area, with focus on contacts and interchanges through time. Its range spans from the investigation of pre-Germanic place-names to present-day Shetland; the materials studied inclu…
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
fromStudies in language companion series
Biographical note: Seiichi Suzuki, Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata, Japan. A formal and functional study of the three meters of Old Norse eddic poetry, fornyrðislag, málaháttr, and ljóðaháttr, this book provides their systematic account (synchronic, diachronic, and from a co…
The book contains a collection of papers dealing with the question of how rhythm shapes language. Until now, therewas no comprehensive theory that addressed these findings adequately. By bringing together researchers from many different fields who will all contribute to answerin…