Animacy and Affectedness in Germanic Languages
Open Linguistics, 2018 This paper deals with the influence of animacy on affectedness. German, like other Germanic languages, requires oblique marking of the inanimate undergoer argument of verbs of contact by impact (e.g.
Fleischhauer Jens
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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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“Pfeile mit Widerhaken”: On the Aphorisms in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften and Wanderjahre [PDF]
, 2014 Germanic Languages and ...
Ryan, Judith L.
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Schleswig – a region of longitudinal language contact
Globe, 2023 The topic of this article is the structural similarity of neighbouring language varieties belonging to two different branches of the Germanic languages.
Elin Fredsted
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Distribution of Word Classes in Old English and Old High German: A Preliminary Contrastive Study Based on The Battle of Maldon, Hildebrandslied and Ludwigslied [PDF]
, 2007 This paper presents an example of a historical study based on comparable corpora. It aims to analyse and compare the distribution of different parts of speech in Old English and Old High German, thus providing a quantitative basis for further conclusions
Kamińska, Anna
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Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 2017 This paper contends that traumatic memories are not inherently memories of an experienced trauma. It explores a new perspective on post-1945 Jewish-American fiction.
Thorsten Wilhelm
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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]
, 2011 The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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CASE STUDIES OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS EXPRESSED IN THE GERMANIC TERMS FOR ‘SPEECH’. THE HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND OF A CONCEPT AS GROUND FOR STUDIES IN CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2012 This article refers to the studies of ‘contrastive rhetoric’ from a historical perspective examining ‘language contact’-situations of Germanic languages within the IndoEuropean group.
Fee-Alexandra Haase
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]
, 2017 This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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Dikeledi’s revenge: A reading of Bessie Head’s ‘The collector of treasures’
Literator, 1996 This essay focuses on the title story of Bessie Head's collection The collector of treasures and pays particular attention to the role of the phallus in the text.
M. Crous
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