Encyclopedia entry: Germanic languages

Article: The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of ...
The Modern Language Review;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages. Ed. by OSKAR BANDLE, KURT BRAUNMULLER, ERNST ... 017149-5 (vol. 11). The early forms of the North Germanic languages are of course vital for an understanding of Indo ...

Article: The Nordic languages; an international handbook of the history of ...
SciTech Book News;  December 1, 2005 ;     608 words ...311017149X The Nordic languages; an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages; v.2. Ed. by Oskar Bandle et al. Walter de Gruyter 2005 1149 pages $697.20 Hardcover Handbooks of linguistics and communication ...

Article: Germanic languages
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... Linguistic Groups The Germanic languages today are conventionally ... East Germanic, North Germanic, and West Germanic ... language ). The North Germanic languages, also called ... These modern North Germanic languages are all descendants ...

Dictionary definition: North Germanic
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      267 words ...North Germanic. Division of Germanic which includes the Germanic languages of Scandinavia (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish), Faeroese, and Icelandic. Traditionally distinguished from East Germanic ( Gothic ) and West Germanic .

Article: Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest ...
Scandinavian Studies;  June 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... General textbooks introducing the Germanic languages are scarce. This work claims to ... undergraduate seminar "Introduction to the Germanic Languages," Robinson takes a philological ... result the reader is introduced to the Germanic languages within a cultural context that considers ...

Encyclopedia entry: GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language;      499 words ...GERMANIC LANGUAGES. A group of related languages ... Indo-European? Do the various Germanic languages form a DIALECT continuum? How ... and mutual contact between, the Germanic languages, as shown in the table. English ...

Article: Derivations and evaluations; object shift in the Germanic ...
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2008 ;     538 words ... ... evaluations; object shift in the Germanic languages. Broekhuis, Hans. Mouton de Gruyter ... investigation of object shift in the Germanic languages within a derivation-and-evaluation ... A-scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same. Representations created ...