Nordic Languages
Subtitle: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages (Handbuecher Zur Sprach- Und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics & Communication Science)
Contributors: Oskar Bandle (Editor); Kurt Braunmuller (Editor); Ernst Hakon Jahr (Editor); Allan Karker (Editor); Hans-Peter Naumann (Editor); Ulf Teleman (Editor)
Edition: Slipcase edition
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc; Mouton De Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1084
ISBN-13: 9783110148763
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Germanic & Scandinavian languages; Scandinavian languages; Etymology
First sentence: The problems of writing language histories have been acute at least since the breakthrough of historical and comparative linguistics around the turn of the 18th century.