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This chapter is a grammatical sketch of Proto-Germanic, parallel to the sketch of Proto-Indo-European in Chapter 2. The section on phonology discusses the Verner’s Law alternation; automatic vocalic alternations; and the ablaut system at length.
Don Ringe
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Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?
Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin +2 more
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Auxiliary combinations in Old West Germanic: A window into their grammaticalization
This article examines how and why auxiliaries combine into complex verb constructions in Old West Germanic. It integrates findings from prior corpus studies on Old Dutch and Old English with original corpus research on Old Saxon, Old High German, and ...
Coussé, Evie,
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INTRODUCTION: SCENES OF CLOSE READING
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 281-297, July 2026.
Carolin Duttlinger +2 more
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Abstract In an increasingly globalized world challenged by multiple social problems, global social identifications (GSIs, e.g., with all humanity) are concepts of growing interest. Although such identifications can be affected by the cultural contexts in which they are manifested, research on them remains largely confined to Western, Educated ...
Katarzyna Hamer +72 more
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University Of Melbourne. Germanic Players
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The Germanic languages are a family of Indo-European (IE) dialects spoken in antiquity, primarily in northeastern ...
Brendan N. Wolfe, Wolfe, Brendan
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This chapter gives an overview of modifier position in noun phrases in the early Germanic languages Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon. We first present data for the relative position of adjectives, cardinal numerals, possessives,
Breban, Tine +7 more
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