The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic
Title | The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Mailhammer |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027262144 |
This book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in the history of Germanic with critical implications for cultural history: the origin of the Germanic writing system (the Runic alphabet), the genesis of the Germanic strong verbs, the development of the Germanic word order, and etymologies for key elements of the Germanic lexicon. The book proposes that all four problems can be solved if it is hypothesized that over 2,000 years ago the ancestor of all Germanic languages, Proto-Germanic, was in intensive contact with Punic, a Semitic language from the Mediterranean. This scenario is explored by focusing on linguistic data, supported by an interdisciplinary mosaic of evidence. This book is of interest to anyone working on the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic languages.
Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature
Title | Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Heiko Wiggers |
Publisher | Vernon Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2024-07-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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'Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature' offers new, compelling, and thought-provoking contributions to the field of Germanic Linguistics. Nine authors from three different continents (North America, Europe, and South America) present in this edited volume their latest research on such diverse topics as Old High German, Old Saxon and Early New High German poetry, Yiddish, German Heritage speakers in the U.S., Germanic language periodization, paleography, and gender issues in Modern Standard German. 'Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature' strives to rekindle dialogue and discourse about topics in Germanic Linguistics while at the same time providing innovative and interesting talking points to the discipline in an international, trans-Atlantic framework. The articles featured in this volume will appeal to students and instructors of Germanic Linguistics alike as well as to anyone interested in this subject.
Interrogating the ‘Germanic’
Title | Interrogating the ‘Germanic’ PDF eBook |
Author | Matthias Friedrich |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2020-11-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110701731 |
Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material. But is the term meaningful, useful, or legitimate? The term, frequently applied to peoples, languages, and material culture found in non-Roman north-western and central Europe in classical antiquity, and to these phenomena in the western Roman Empire’s successor states, is often treated as a legitimate, all-encompassing name for the culture of these regions. Its usage is sometimes intended to suggest a shared social identity or ethnic affinity among those who produce these phenomena. Yet, despite decades of critical commentary that have highlighted substantial problems, its dominance of scholarship appears not to have been challenged. This edited volume, which offers contributions ranging from literary and linguistic studies to archaeology, and which span from the first to the sixteenth centuries AD, examines why the term remains so pervasive despite its problems, offering a range of alternative interpretative perspectives on the late and post-Roman worlds.
ICONS OF THE ALPHABET
Title | ICONS OF THE ALPHABET PDF eBook |
Author | REESE M. HEITNER |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3031393074 |
A Creative Philosophy of Anticipation
Title | A Creative Philosophy of Anticipation PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie Brassett |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2021-04-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000376087 |
This edited collection highlights the valuable ontological and creative insights gathered from anticipation studies, which orients itself to the future in order to recreate the present. The gathered essays engage with many writers from speculative metaphysics to poetic philosophy, ancient writing systems to the fringes of pataphysics. The book situates itself as a creative intervention in and with various thinkers, designers, artists, scientists and poets to offer insight into ways of anticipating. It brings together philosophical practices for which creativity is both a fundamental area of consideration and a mode of working, a characterization of recent Continental Philosophy which takes a departure from traditional futures studies thinking. This book will be of interest to scholars and research in futures studies, anticipation, philosophy, creative practice and theories about creative practice, as well as the intersections between philosophy, creativity and business.
English on Croker Island
Title | English on Croker Island PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Mailhammer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2021-02-08 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 3110707942 |
Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and language contact. These results have significant ramifications for how variation is modelled, for our understanding of how postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the dynamics of complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker Island into a typological context of World Englishes by establishing a profile according to the parameters of the World Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE). It is of interest to academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English, language contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages.
Sub-Indo-European Europe
Title | Sub-Indo-European Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Guus Kroonen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2024-05-24 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3111338134 |