Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages. History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of …

This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world languages such as English and German (West Germanic), the …

Written by internationally renowned experts of Germanic linguistics, this handbook is a detailed overview and analysis of the structure of modern Germanic languages and dialects.

Bottom line: the most important non-Roman and non-canonic elements in Western European law that are not the product of medieval and modern developments are probably, at least in some sense, …

Y GERMANIC 1.1 General Among Old Germanic languages we include: Gothic (§2), Old North Germanic ('Proto-Norse', §3) before its split into the Old Norse (ON) dialects, the 'West Ger-manic' …

In this section, we shall list some of the most important diagnostic features of Germanic within the realms of phonology and morphosyntax, which constitute the most reliable means for establishing …

This series aims to provide a unified home for the highest quality monographs and edited scholarly volumes of empirically grounded research on Germanic languages past and present.