Harbert Wayne. The Germanic Languages

Cambridge University Press, 2007 — 524 p. — (Cambridge Language Surveys).
Quality: goodGermanic – one of the largest subgroups of the Indo-European language
family – comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers
worldwide. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full
range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major
world languages such as English and German (West Germanic), the Scandinavian
(North Germanic) languages, and the extinct East Germanic languages.
Unlike previous studies, it does not take a chronological or a
language-by-language approach, organized instead around linguistic constructions
and subsystems. Considering dialects alongside standard varieties,
it provides a detailed account of topics such as case, word formation, sound
systems, vowel length, syllable structure, the noun phrase, the verb phrase,
the expression of tense and mood, and the syntax of the clause. Authoritative
and comprehensive, this much-needed survey will be welcomed by scholars
and students of the Germanic languages, as well as linguists across the many
branches of the field.ISBN-13: 978-0-511-26885-4 eBook (EBL)
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