Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages / R. D. Fulk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fulk, R. D., author.

Series:

Studies in Germanic Linguistics ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 420 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

Summary:

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 High German, along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared, with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Prosodic Features and the Syllable

Chapter 3: The Vowels of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic

Chapter 4: Changes of Stressed Vowels in Germanic

Chapter 5: The Germanic Vowels in Syllables of Lesser Stress

Chapter 6: Consonants

Chapter 7: Nouns

Chapter 8: Pronouns

Chapter 9: Adjectives

Chapter 10: Numerals

Chapter 11: Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions

Chapter 12: Verbs

References

Index Verborum

Notes:

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