A comparative grammar of the early Germanic languages / / R. D. Fulk.

• Superior document: Studies in Germanic linguistics (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 3
• VerfasserIn: Fulk, R. D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Germanic linguistics (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 420 pages) :; illustrations.

'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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Prosodic Features and the Syllable -- CHAPTER 3. The Vowels of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic -- CHAPTER 4. Changes of Stressed Vowels in Germanic -- CHAPTER 5. The Germanic Vowels in Syllables of Lesser Stress -- CHAPTER 6. Consonants -- CHAPTER 7. Nouns -- CHAPTER 8. Pronouns -- CHAPTER 9. Adjectives -- CHAPTER 10. Numerals -- CHAPTER 11. Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions -- CHAPTER 12. Verbs -- References -- Index verborum.