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Bandle, Oscar; Braunmüller, Kurt; Jahr, Ernst Hakon; Karker, Allan; Naumann, Hans-Peter; Telemann, Ulf; Elmevik, Lennart; Widmark, Gun: The Nordic Languages. Volume 1
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 783.00This handbook is a comprehensive history of the North Germanic languages from the oldest times up to the present day. It is not tied to a particular methodology, but keeps in principle to a pronounced methodological pluralism, encompassing all aspects of actual methodology. more...
Bandle, Oscar; Braunmüller, Kurt; Jahr, Ernst Hakon; Karker, Allan; Naumann, Hans-Peter; Telemann, Ulf; Elmevik, Lennart; Widmark, Gun: The Nordic Languages. Volume 2
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 783.00This handbook is conceived as a comprehensive history of the North Germanic languages from the oldest times up to the present day. Whereas most of the traditional presentations of Nordic language history are confined to individual languages and often concentrate on purely linguistic data, the present work covers the history of all Nordic languages... more...
Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen
De Gruyter 1970; US$ 196.00Altisl Ndische Und Altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- Und Flexionslehre) Unter Ber Cksichtigung Des Urnordischen (Sammlung Kurzer Grammatiken Germanischer Dialekte. A: Hauptr) more...
On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 158.00It has often been noted that Dutch (and Frisian) reflects a particular stage of development between German and English. Phonologically, syntactically and morphologically, Dutch and German are closely related languages. Yet, there remain sufficient morphosyntactic differences in terms of language development. The contributions of this collection focus... more...
Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 195.00This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions... more...
Comparative Germanic Syntax
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 158.00The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of... more...
Colloquial Swedish
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 33.95Colloquial Swedish provides a step-by-step course in Swedish as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Swedish in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language... more...
Danish: An Essential Grammar
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 40.95Danish: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of current Danish as it is used by native speakers. It focuses on those areas of Danish that pose particular problems for the learner but at the same time provides a broad general account of the language. The Grammar is the ideal source of reference for the learner... more...
Exploring Newspaper Language
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 149.00This book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus. This is a large monitor corpus of contemporary Norwegian language, compiled through daily harvesting of web newspapers. The book gives an overview of the corpus and its system architecture, and... more...
Runes and Germanic Linguistics
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 182.00The older runic inscriptions (ca. AD 150 - 450) represent the earliest attestation of any Germanic language. The close relationship of these inscriptions to the archaic Mediterranean writing traditions is demonstrated through the linguistic and orthographic analysis presented here. The extraordinary importance of these inscriptions for a proper understanding... more...









