At first glance, there may seem little reason to think of English and German as variant forms of a single language. There are enormous differences between the two in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, and a monolingual speaker of one cannot understand the other at all. Yet …
In this article, we discuss how contrastivity can be identified in historical texts where we have no direct access to prosodic features such as stress and intonation. We depart from our knowledge of contrastivity in the modern languages and their exponence in Modern Spanish and …
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 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…
La "Gramática Comparativa" de Fulk ofrece una visión general y una guía bibliográfica para el estudio de la fonología y la morfología de la inflexión de las primeras lenguas germánicas, con especial atención al gótico, nórdico antiguo / islandés, inglés antiguo, frisón antiguo, …
Fulk's 'Comparative Grammar' offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old…
This book offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along…
