Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783110198782
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 183
Content:
As a contribution to the ongoing discussion of the genesis of the Germanic language, this book investigates the strong verbs of Proto-Germanic using a new approach that combines historical and typological morphology with quantitative etymology. It reveals that the morphological peculiarities and the etymological problems of the strong verbs have been considerably underestimated. The first part of the book explains how drastically the inherited verb system was transformed when it was uniformized and simplified around a functionalized verbal ablaut. In particular, it is shown that the systemic p
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110199574
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mailhammer, Robert, 1975 - The Germanic strong verbs Berlin [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 ISBN 9783110199574
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110199572
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Germanisch
;
Starkes Verb
;
Morphologie
;
Germanisch
;
Starkes Verb
;
Etymologie
DOI:
10.1515/9783110198782
URL:
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Author information:
Mailhammer, Robert 1975-
