Thousands of years ago, seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language - the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language.
Thousands of years ago, seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language - the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language.
Ruth H. Sanders is Professor of German at Miami University of Ohio.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Introduction: What this book covers * Chapter One: Germanic Beginnings: Early Ancestors in Denmark * Timeline : From the earliest settlements in northern Europe to the beginning of the Christian era * Sidebars: * 1. Indo-European: Protolanguage and culture * 2. The First Sound Shift * 3. Language contact and language change: The case of Finland * Chapter Two: The Germanic Languages Survive the Romans: The Battle of Kalkriese * Timeline: From the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle ges * Sidebars: * 1. The Germanic tribes * 2. The Goths and the Gothic language * 3. The Celts * Chapter Three: A Fork in the Road: Germanic languages separate into Low and High * Timeline: From the beginning of the Middle Ages to the Protestant Reformation * Sidebars: * 1. The Second Sound Shift * 2. The Vikings: Raiders, traders, and neighbors * 3. The Germanen go to England: The Anglo-Saxons and the English language * 4. Yiddish: The creation of a new Germanic language * Chapter Four: A perfect storm, and the birth of Standard German * Timeline: From the beginning of the Reformation to the beginning of the First Industrial Revolution * Sidebars: * 1. The Thirty Years' War * 2. The Reformation * 3. The history of European printing * Chapter Five: The German language gets a state * Timeline: From the Unification of Germany to the beginning of World War I * Sidebars: * 1. The revolution of 1848 * Chapter Six: Postwar Comeback Times Two: German Begins to Recover after a Fall from grace * Timeline: From the end of World War I to the present * Sidebars: * 1. Spelling Reforms * 2. Early Germanic language in a deep freeze: The case of Icelandic * Bibliography
* Preface * Introduction: What this book covers * Chapter One: Germanic Beginnings: Early Ancestors in Denmark * Timeline : From the earliest settlements in northern Europe to the beginning of the Christian era * Sidebars: * 1. Indo-European: Protolanguage and culture * 2. The First Sound Shift * 3. Language contact and language change: The case of Finland * Chapter Two: The Germanic Languages Survive the Romans: The Battle of Kalkriese * Timeline: From the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle ges * Sidebars: * 1. The Germanic tribes * 2. The Goths and the Gothic language * 3. The Celts * Chapter Three: A Fork in the Road: Germanic languages separate into Low and High * Timeline: From the beginning of the Middle Ages to the Protestant Reformation * Sidebars: * 1. The Second Sound Shift * 2. The Vikings: Raiders, traders, and neighbors * 3. The Germanen go to England: The Anglo-Saxons and the English language * 4. Yiddish: The creation of a new Germanic language * Chapter Four: A perfect storm, and the birth of Standard German * Timeline: From the beginning of the Reformation to the beginning of the First Industrial Revolution * Sidebars: * 1. The Thirty Years' War * 2. The Reformation * 3. The history of European printing * Chapter Five: The German language gets a state * Timeline: From the Unification of Germany to the beginning of World War I * Sidebars: * 1. The revolution of 1848 * Chapter Six: Postwar Comeback Times Two: German Begins to Recover after a Fall from grace * Timeline: From the end of World War I to the present * Sidebars: * 1. Spelling Reforms * 2. Early Germanic language in a deep freeze: The case of Icelandic * Bibliography
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