A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages

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R.D. Fulk

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Fulk’s 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. Students will find the book an informative introduction and a bibliographically instructive point of departure for intensive research in the numerous issues that remain profoundly contested in early Germanic language history.

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 3] 2018. xv, 420 pp.

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Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations | p. xiii

Preface | pp. xiv–xv

List of Figures

Chapter 1: Introduction | pp. 1–34

Chapter 2: Prosodic Features and the Syllable | pp. 35–42

Chapter 3: The Vowels of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic | pp. 43–54

Chapter 4: Changes of Stressed Vowels in Germanic | pp. 55–78

Chapter 5: The Germanic Vowels in Syllables of Lesser Stress | pp. 79–98

Chapter 6: Consonants | pp. 99–140

Chapter 7: Nouns | pp. 141–180

Chapter 8: Pronouns | pp. 181–207

Chapter 9: Adjectives | pp. 208–221

Chapter 10: Numerals | pp. 222–236

Chapter 11: Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions | pp. 237–241

Chapter 12: Verbs | pp. 242–339

Index Verborum | pp. 376–420

“Die mehrfach angesprochene Materialfülle und der Versuch des Verf., bei strittigen Fragen möglichst alle relevanten Hypothesen vorzustellen, macht das Werk zu einem unentbehrlichen Nachschlagewerk für die heutige Alt- und Indogermanistik.”

Patrick Mächler, in Kratylos Volume 64 (2019)

“In der Summe hat Fulk ein wunderbares Hilfsmittel für alle Germanisten und Indogermanisten geschaffen, die sich über den Forschungsstand zu Problemen der historischen Grammatik des Germanischen informieren wollen. Die Ausgewogenheit der Darstellung sowie die reichen und aktuellen Literaturangaben qualifizieren das Buch zur ersten Anlaufstelle, die vielfältige Wege zur weiteren Vertiefung eröffnet.”

Frank Heidermanns, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, in NOWELE 73:2 (2020)

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