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Language Change and Language Structure : Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective / ed. by Endre Mørck, Olaf Jansen, Toril Swan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 73Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1994Edition: Reprint 2010Description: 1 online resource (346 p.) : Num. figs. and tablesContent type:
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  • 9783110135381
  • 9783110886573
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 430/.09 20
LOC classification:
  • PD75 .L36 1994
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-XII -- The development of the runic script and its relationship to Germanic phonological history -- Some typological tendencies in the development of the noun phrase in Germanic languages -- On comparatives in English and other languages -- Sentences with initial adverbials in the law of Magnus Lagabøter with particular emphasis on the position of the subject -- The fortunes of the Latin-type accusative and infinitive construction in Dutch and English compared -- Typological differences between English and German morphology and their causes -- The distribution of subject properties and the acquisition of subjecthood in the West Scandinavian languages -- Ingerid Dal's views on Old Saxon in the light of new evidence -- Kuhn's laws and rise of verb-second syntax -- A note on Old English and Old Norse initial adverbials and word order with special reference to sentence adverbials -- Dating the division between High and Low Germanic: A summary of arguments -- On the subject of some nominativeless sentences in Old Germanic -- Subject Index
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I-XII -- The development of the runic script and its relationship to Germanic phonological history -- Some typological tendencies in the development of the noun phrase in Germanic languages -- On comparatives in English and other languages -- Sentences with initial adverbials in the law of Magnus Lagabøter with particular emphasis on the position of the subject -- The fortunes of the Latin-type accusative and infinitive construction in Dutch and English compared -- Typological differences between English and German morphology and their causes -- The distribution of subject properties and the acquisition of subjecthood in the West Scandinavian languages -- Ingerid Dal's views on Old Saxon in the light of new evidence -- Kuhn's laws and rise of verb-second syntax -- A note on Old English and Old Norse initial adverbials and word order with special reference to sentence adverbials -- Dating the division between High and Low Germanic: A summary of arguments -- On the subject of some nominativeless sentences in Old Germanic -- Subject Index

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