An Introduction to Old Frisian

An Introduction to Old Frisian
Author: Rolf Hendrik Bremmer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027232555

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This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian and includes a history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Covered are the phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax of Old Frisian, with a chapter on Old Frisian dialects and one on problems regarding the periodization of Frisian and the close relationship between (Old) Frisian and (Old) English. Included is a reader with a representative selection of twenty-one texts with explanatory notes and a full glossary. A bibliography and a select index complete the book.

Old English and its Closest Relatives

Old English and its Closest Relatives
Author: Orrin W. Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134848994

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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.

The Oera Linda Book

The Oera Linda Book
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1876
Genre: Frisians
ISBN:

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A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies

A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies
Author: Rolf Hendrik Bremmer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 8774929062

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This bibliography aims serve the demands and wishes of students of Old Frisian for its own sake as well as for those who want to use Old Frisian for comparative purposes. Although it concentrates on language and literature, titles have also been included which deal with more or less peripheral matters such as Ingvaeonic, history, legal history and daily life in Medieval Frisia. The bibliography is divided into three parts. Part I lists in alphabetical order all the books and articles. Part II alphabetically indexes the reviewers occurring in Part I. Part III contains an analytical index to Part I, enabling scholars to survey what work has been done on a particular subject.

A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies

A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies
Author: Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027272905

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This bibliography aims serve the demands and wishes of students of Old Frisian for its own sake as well as for those who want to use Old Frisian for comparative purposes. Although it concentrates on language and literature, titles have also been included which deal with more or less peripheral matters such as Ingvaeonic, history, legal history and daily life in Medieval Frisia. The bibliography is divided into three parts. Part I lists in alphabetical order all the books and articles. Part II alphabetically indexes the reviewers occurring in Part I. Part III contains an analytical index to Part I, enabling scholars to survey what work has been done on a particular subject.

A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages

A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
Author: R.D. Fulk
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2018-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027263132

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Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared, with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage. Students will find the book an informative introduction and a bibliographically instructive point of departure for intensive research in the numerous issues that remain profoundly contested in early Germanic language history.

Studies in West Frisian Grammar

Studies in West Frisian Grammar
Author: Germen J. de Haan
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2010-08-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027287988

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In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and complementizer agreement. Because Frisian has minority language status and is of interest to sociolinguists, the author reviews the linguistic changes in Frisian under the influence of the dominant Dutch language and, more generally, reflects on how to deal with contact-induced change in grammar. Finally, in three phonological articles, the author discusses nasalization in Frisian, the putatively symmetrical vowel inventory of Frisian, and the variation between schwa + sonorant consonants and syllabic sonorant consonants.

Multilingual Europe

Multilingual Europe
Author: Guus Extra
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2008-12-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110208350

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This book offers an inclusive perspective on the constellation of languages in Europe by taking into account official state languages, regional minority languages and immigrant minority languages. Although "celebrating linguistic diversity" is one of the key propositions in the European discourse on multilingualism and language policies, this device holds for these three types of languages in a decreasing order. All three types of languages, however, are constituent parts of a multilingual European identity and should be taken into account in any type of language policy. Both facts and policies on multilingualism and plurilingual education are addressed in case studies at the national and European level. The selection of case studies is based on a careful weighing of geographical spread of countries and languages across Europe on the one hand, and availability of established expert knowledge on the other. After an Introduction to the theme of the book (Guus Extra and Durk Gorter), Part I deals with official state languages with a focus on the spread of English as lingua franca across Europe (Juliane House), on French and France (Dennis Ager), on Polish in Poland and abroad (Justyna Lesniewśka), and on language constellations in the Baltic States (Gabrielle Hogan-Brun). Part II deals with regional minority languages with a focus on Catalan in Spain (Francesc Xavier Vila i Moreno), Frisian in the Netherlands (Durk Gorter et al.), Hungarian as a minority language in Central Europe (Susan Gal), and Saami in the Nordic countries (Mikael Svonni). Part III deals with immigrant minority languages in the United Kingdom (Viv Edwards), Sweden (Lilian Nygren-Junkin), Italy (Monica Barni and Carla Bagna) and Europe at large (Guus Extra and Kutlay Yağmur).

Frisian Reference Grammar

Frisian Reference Grammar
Author: Peter Meijes Tiersma
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1985
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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