Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
Publisher: Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9789027263124
Subjects: Germanic languages; Indo-european languages; Grammar, comparative and general
Description: 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.