This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from prehistory to the present. This second edition has been extensively revised to include coverage of syntactic change, sociolinguistics, language variation, and language contact, as well as more detailed definitions and background information for beginners.
This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from prehistory to the present. This second edition has been extensively revised to include coverage of syntactic change, sociolinguistics, language variation, and language contact, as well as more detailed definitions and background information for beginners.
Joseph Salmons is the Lester W. J. "Smoky" Seifert Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison., where he is also co-founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. His work focuses on language change in the context of linguistic theory, especially speech sounds. He serves as editor of Diachronica: International Journal for Historical Linguistics and his main publications include The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology (co-edited with Patrick Honeybone; OUP, 2015) and Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, Attrition, and Change (co-edited with Janne Bondi Johannessen; Benjamins, 2015).
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Introduction: aims and scope * 2: The depths of prehistory: up to Indo-European * 3: The dawn of history: Germanic up to the earliest direct attestation * 4: From Germanic to Old High German: early textual evidence * 5: Middle High German: the High Middle Ages * 6: Early New High German: richer structural evidence and socio-historical context * 7: New High German: recent and ongoing change * 8: Conclusion: interpreting the significance of the past for us * References
* 1: Introduction: aims and scope * 2: The depths of prehistory: up to Indo-European * 3: The dawn of history: Germanic up to the earliest direct attestation * 4: From Germanic to Old High German: early textual evidence * 5: Middle High German: the High Middle Ages * 6: Early New High German: richer structural evidence and socio-historical context * 7: New High German: recent and ongoing change * 8: Conclusion: interpreting the significance of the past for us * References
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