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Investigating west germanic languages studies in Honor of Robert B. Howell. Jennifer Hendriks
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hendriks, Jennifer.
- Series:
- Studies in Germanic Linguistics Series
- Studies in Germanic Linguistics Series vol. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germanic philology.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2024
- Summary:
- In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of English, German, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans, and Pennsylvania Dutch, the contributions explore 1) linguistic structure and change; 2) migration, contact, and change; 3) vernacular sources and change; or 4) historical sociolinguistics.
- Contents:
- Investigating West Germanic Languages
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Part I Introduction
- Investigating West Germanic Languages
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Linguistic structure and change
- 3. Migration, contact, and change
- 4. Vernacular sources and change
- 5. Historical sociolinguistics: Past, present, and future
- References
- Part II Linguistic structure and change
- Homorganic lengthening in late Old English revisited
- 2. A bird’s eye view of homorganic lengthening
- 3. Evidence of homorganic lengthening in the Ormulum
- 4. The motivation for homorganic lengthening
- 5. The distribution of lengthened reflexes of homorganic lengthening in PDE revisited
- 6. Conclusion
- Meter, syntax, and the use of punctuation in the Leipzig fragment of the Hêliand
- 2. Background
- 2.1 The relationship between L, P, and C
- 2.2 Punctuation in Hêliand manuscripts
- 3. Methodology
- 4. Results
- 5. Discussion Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version : Hendriks, Jennifer Investigating West Germanic Languages
- ISBN:
- 9789027247100
- OCLC:
- 1432601288
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