دانلود کتاب The Germanic Languages: Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations

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Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
I. The Germanic Languages
1. Present-day extension
2. Earliest attestation
3. The early runic language
II. Germanic: An Indo-European Language Group
1. Indo-European
2. The position of Germanic within Indo-European
3. Linguistic features characteristic of Germanic
III. Germanic Tribal Movements
1. The Goths
2. The Upper and Central German tribes
3. The Anglo-Saxons
IV. The Grouping of the Germanic Languages
1. Early attempts at Germanic dialect grouping
2. Wrede, Maurer and the West Germanic problem
3. Schwarz and his critics
4. Recent attempts at Germanic dialect grouping
V. Methodological Deliberations
1. Stammbaum theory, wave theory and substratum theory
2. Dialect geography
3. Parallels (partly) attributable to other factors
4. Closing remarks
References
Index