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Article: The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2008
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The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages. Ed. by OSKAR BANDLE, KURT BRAUNMULLER, ERNST HAKON JAHR, ALLAN KARKER, HANS-PETER NAUMANN, ULF TELEMANN, LENNART EL-MEVIK, and GUN WIDMARK. 2 vols. (Handbucher zur Sprach- and Kommunikationswissenschaft/ Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science, 22) Berlin: de Gruyter. 2002-05. xxvii+2208 pp. (the set). 498 [euro] (each). ISBN 978-3-11-014876-3 (vol. 1); 978-3-11-017149-5 (vol. 11).
The early forms of the North Germanic languages are of course vital for an understanding of Indo-European and Germanic linguistics, but the history of the modern languages is not ...