The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic: A linguistic and cultural study
Robert Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann
[NOWELE Supplement Series, 32] 2019. xiii, 268 pp.
Theo Vennemann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Theo Vennemann plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
2013 On gain and loss of verbal categories in language contact: Old English vs. Old High German Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer (eds.), pp. 289–312 | Article
The theory of language change has in recent years increased its explanatory repertoire by pointing out the role of language contact in determining which paths of development are entered and followed under specified conditions. In particular, language shifting – as unmonitored second language… read more
2002 Key issues in English etymology Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000, Fanego, Teresa, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane (eds.), pp. 227–252 | Article
2001 Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.), pp. 351–369 | Article
1997 Zur Etymologie der Sippe von Engl. knife, Franz. canif, Bask. kanibet NOWELE Volume 31/32 (November 1997): Germanic Studies, Goblirsch, Kurt Gustav, Martha Berryman Mayou and Marvin Taylor (eds.), pp. 439–462 | Article
1992 Language Universals: Endowment or Inheritance? Diachronica 9:1, pp. 47–60 | Article
SUMMARY It is traditionally believed that language universals have their source in the uniform genetic endowment of all human beings. In his keynote address "Investigating linguistic universals" presented at the 12th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, held at Aix-en-Provence in 1991, Ian… read more
1991 The Relative Chronology of the High Germanic Consonant Shift and the West Germanic Anaptyxis Diachronica 8:1, pp. 45–57 | Article
SUMMARY This paper studies systematic relationships between two sound changes, the High Germanic Consonant Shift and the West Germanic Anaptyxis. Since the High Germanic languages, i.e., High German and Lombardic, are a division of the West Germanic Sprachbund, it might be thought — and this is… read more
1985 The bifurcation theory of the Germanic and German consonant shifts: synopsis and some further thoughts Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983, Fisiak, Jacek (ed.), pp. 527–548 | Article