History of German - What the Past Reveals about Today's Language Salmons Joseph Lester W. J. 'Smoky' Seifert Professor of Linguistics University of Wisconsin-MadisonPaperback
History of German - What the Past Reveals about Today's Language Salmons Joseph Lester W. J. 'Smoky' Seifert Professor of Linguistics University of Wisconsin-MadisonPaperback This book provides a…
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History of German - What the Past Reveals about Today's Language Salmons Joseph Lester W. J. 'Smoky' Seifert Professor of Linguistics University of Wisconsin-MadisonPaperback
This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to the present day. Why does German have 'umlaut' vowels and why do they play so many different roles in the grammar? Joe Salmons explores a range of topics in the history of the language, offering answers to questions such as: How did German come to have so many different dialects and close linguistic cousins like Dutch and Plattdeutsch?
Are dialects dying out today? Why are noun plurals so complicated? Does English, with all the words it loans to German, pose a threat to the language?This second edition has been extensively expanded and revised to include extended coverage of syntactic and pragmatic change throughout, expanded discussion of sociolinguistic aspects, language variation, and language contact, and more on the position