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A History of German
This book provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructible prehistory to the present day. It is supported by a companion website and is suitable for language learners and teachers and students of linguistics, from undergraduate level upwards.
The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming
In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum over the last few ...
German Literature of the Early Middle Ages
A detailed, contextualized picture of the very beginnings of writing in German from around 750 to 1100. This second volume of the set not only presents a detailed picture of the beginnings of writing in German from its first emergence as a literary language from around 750 to 1100, but also places those earliest writings into a context. The first stages of German literature existed within a manuscript culture, so careful consideration is given to what constitutes the actual texts, but German literature also arose within a society that had recently been Christianized -- through the medium of Latin. Therefore what we understand by literature in Germany at this early period must include a great...
Lenition and Vowel Lengthening in the Germanic Languages
The interrelationship between three major quantity changes in the history of the Germanic languages: gemination, lenition, and open syllable lengthening.
Expanding the Lexicon
The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon – understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level – by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as with historical processes of change in different languages and reflect on patterns and specific subtypes of lexical innovation as well as on their external conditions and the speakers’ motivations for innovating. Moreover, the diffusion and conventionalization of innovations will be addressed. In this way, the volume contributes to understanding the complex interplay of structural, cognitive and functional factors in the lexicon as a highly dynamic domain.
Velar fronting in German dialects: A study in synchronic and diachronic phonology
Velar Fronting (VF) is the name for any synchronic or diachronic phonological process shifting the velar place of articulation to the palatal region of the vocal tract. A well-known case of VF in Standard German is the rule specifying that the fricative [x] assimilates to [ç] after front segments. VF also refers to the change from velar sounds like [ɣ k g ŋ] to palatals ([ʝ c ɟ ɲ]). The book provides a thorough investigation of VF in German dialects: Data are drawn from over 300 original sources for varieties that are (or were) spoken in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other countries. VF differs geographically along three parameters: (A) triggers, (B) targets, and (C) outputs. VF t...
Beiträge zu Linguistik und Phonetik
Aus dem Inhalt: V. Harm: �berlegungen zum Ausgangsstadium der althochdeutschen Tenuesverschiebung R. Bentzinger: Sprachschichtungen im sp�tmittelalterlichen Thueringisch E. Sk�la: Die Egerer Forstordnung von 1379 H. Wolf: Luthers Umgang mit Anthroponymen Z. Muljacic: Auf der Suche nach einer wahrscheinlich nicht fertiggestellten historischen Grammatik P. Seidensticker: Kr�uterbuecher und Sprachwissenschaft J. Riecke: Deutsche Sprache und deutschsprachige Zeitungen in L�dz M. A. Gabinschi: Das Infrastrat als Spracherscheinung und seine Offenbarung in der Geschichte der rum�nischen Sprache G. Lerchner: Lebenserinnerungen eines s�chsischen Gardereiters. Beobachtungen an einem regionalsprachlichen Alltagstext um 1900 N. Nail: Kontinuit�t und Wandel in der deutschen Studentensprache des 19. und 20. Jhs. G. Bellmann: Biographie und Lexik: der Konspekt H. J. Dingeldein: K. Bernhardi und die Sprachgrenzen im Deutschen R. Grosse: Phonetisch-phonologische Anmerkungen zum Westmei�nischen um Borna und Geithain K.-D. Ludwig: Mundartliches aus Grimorch im Mei�nischen G. Bergmann: Der Typ herum-m�ren im S�chsischen u.a.
Althochdeutsche Sprache und Literatur
Dieses Studienbuch stellt eine umfassende neue Einführung in die frühmittelalterliche deutsche Sprache und Literatur (vom 8. bis zum 11. Jh.) auf sprach- und kulturgeschichtlichem Hintergrund dar. Die Darstellung wird ergänzt durch eine kurzgefaßte Grammatik der ältesten Stufe des Deutschen mit vielen Textbeispielen aus den Quellen. Auf diese Weise wird ein sprachgeschichtlich-kulturhistorisches Gesamtbild des Althochdeutschen auf dem Hintergrund einer vielfältigen Forschung vermittelt, an welcher der Verfasser selbst maßgeblich beteiligt ist. Gegenüber der 2. Auflage in der Sammlung Göschen wurde die Einführung bedeutend erweitert und um zusätzliche Übersichtsdarstellungen und Abbildungen aus Handschriften ergänzt. Besonders kulturhistorische Gesichtspunkte wurden berücksichtigt.
