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Article: Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages.
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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Orrin W. Robinson. Stanford UP, 1992. Pp. xiii + 290. $35.00 cloth.
General textbooks introducing the Germanic languages are scarce. This work claims to provide a resource accessible to monolingual English speakers with a minimal background in linguistics. The task seems hardly possible, but Robinson accomplishes it and he does so with flying colors. In his text, which grew out of a Stanford undergraduate seminar "Introduction to the Germanic Languages," Robinson takes a philological approach, supplementing his primary linguistic discussion with archaeological, historical, and literary material. As a result the reader is introduced to the Germanic languages within ...
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