Language Change and Language Structure
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Language Change and Language Structure

Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective

  1. 357 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Language Change and Language Structure

Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective

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Table of contents

  1. The development of the runic script and its relationship to Germanic phonological history
  2. Some typological tendencies in the development of the noun phrase in Germanic languages
  3. On comparatives in English and other languages
  4. Sentences with initial adverbials in the law of Magnus Lagabøter with particular emphasis on the position of the subject
  5. The fortunes of the Latin-type accusative and infinitive construction in Dutch and English compared
  6. Typological differences between English and German morphology and their causes
  7. The distribution of subject properties and the acquisition of subjecthood in the West Scandinavian languages
  8. Ingerid Dal's views on Old Saxon in the light of new evidence
  9. Kuhn's laws and rise of verb-second syntax
  10. A note on Old English and Old Norse initial adverbials and word order with special reference to sentence adverbials
  11. Dating the division between High and Low Germanic: A summary of arguments
  12. On the subject of some nominativeless sentences in Old Germanic
  13. Subject Index