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Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages Paperback - 1993
by Robinson, Orrin W
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- Title Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
- Author Robinson, Orrin W
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 1993-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Glossary, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # WAL-R-0e-01467
- ISBN 9780804722216 / 0804722218
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 430.09
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From the rear cover
How do we account for these similarities? The generally accepted explanation is that English and German are divergent continuations of a common ancestor, a Germanic language now lost. This book surveys the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of the earliest kown Germanic languages, members of what has traditionally been known as the English family tree: Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Low Franconian, and Old High German.
For each language, the author provides a brief history of the people who spoke it, an overview of the important texts in the language, sample passages with full glossary and word-by-word translations, a section on orthography and grammar, and discussion of linguistic or philological topics relevant to all the early Germanic languaes but best exemplified by the particular language under consideration. These topics inclued the pronunciation of older languages; the runic inscriptions; Germanic alliterative pietry; historical syntax, borrowing, analogy, and drift; textual transmission; and dialect variation.