Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages by Orrin W. Robinson - 1992-09-01

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Stanford University Press. New. 1993. Softcover. 0804722218 . This specific softcover book is in new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "At first glance, there may seem little reason to think of English and German as variant forms of a single language. There are enormous differences between the two in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, and a monolingual speaker of one cannot understand the other at all. Yet modern English and German have many points in common, and if we go back to the earliest texts available in the two languages, the similarities are even more notable. 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… Read More

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Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1995. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Paperback, ix, 290pp. Light rubbing on corners o/w fine. Includes history and characteristics of many languages in the Old English and Germanic families, including examples from Old Norse and Saxon, Gothic, Frisian, Old Low Franconian and other language histories.

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Stanford Univ Pr, 1993. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 320 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.

Stanford Univ Pr, 1993. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 320 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. The author surveys the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of the earliest known 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.

New. This accessible introductory reference source surveys the linguistic and cultural background of the earliest known Germanic languages and examines their similarities and differences. The Languages covered include:Gothic Old Norse Old SaxonOld English Old Low Franconian Old High German Written in a lively style, each chapter opens with a brief cultural history of the people who used the language, followed by selected authentic and translated texts and an examination of particular areas including grammar, pronunciation, lexis, dialect variation and borrowing, textual transmission, analogy and drift.