The Germanic LanguagesProvides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish. |
Contents
1 The Germanic Languages | 1 |
2 Gothic and the Reconstruction of ProtoGermanic ... | 19 |
3 Old and Middle Scandinavian | 38 |
4 Old and Middle Continental West Germanic | 72 |
5 Old and Middle English | 110 |
6 Icelandic | 142 |
7 Faroese | 190 |
8 Norwegian | 219 |
11 German | 349 |
12 Yiddish | 388 |
13 Pennsylvania German | 420 |
14 Dutch | 439 |
15 Afrikaans | 478 |
16 Frisian | 505 |
17 English | 532 |
18 Germanic Creoles | 566 |
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Common terms and phrases
accusative adjectival adjectives adverbial Afrikaans auxiliary Bokmål clitic complements compound consonant constituent constructions creoles Danish dative declension derived dialects diphthongs direct object distinction element ending example expressed Faroese feminine finite verb forms fricatives Frisian function gender genitive Germanic languages grammatical Icelandic indefinite infinitive inflectional interrogative lexical linguistic Low German main clauses marker masculine Middle Dutch Middle English Middle Low German modal Modern morphological negation neuter nominative Norwegian noun phrase occur Old English Old High German Old Saxon passive past participle pattern Pennsylvania German personal pronouns phonetic phonological pidgin plural position preceding predicative preposed prepositional phrases present preterite pronominal Proto-Germanic reflexive relative clauses semantic sentence singular speakers spoken standard stem stød stress strong verbs subjunctive subordinate clauses suffix syntactic Table third-person Tok Pisin types unstressed syllables variation verb-second verbal voiceless weak verbs word order Yiddish