lowe a debt of gratitude to many people at Odense University: to past and present colleagues in the Medieval Centre and the English Department for the interest they have taken in my work to Lektor Henrik Tvarn~, Dean of the Humanities Faculty, for kindly permitting me to have my manuscript typed in the Humanistiske Skrivestue and to Ms. 1.3, and for originally encouraging me to publish an English-language version of De germanske sprog. Antonsen for his many suggestions for improvement in the book, particularly in relation

My warmest thanks are due Professor Elmer H. Harry Andersen (t) and Lektor Torben Kisbye for their kind and useful comments. Several of the reviews of the Danish version of the book have been of great benefit to the present edition. The number of works referred to in this edition exceeds the number in the original one by over 70 per cent. 3, IV and V mainly from the corresponding chapters (V, I and II) in my Old English and the Continental Germanic Languages, cf. But much new material has been incorporated in all chapters of the book, in chs. To readers of the Danish version of the book it will be obvious that the basic arrangement has been retained in the present volume. Therefore the chapter focuses on the migrations of respectively the Goths, the Central and Upper German tribes, and the Anglo-Saxons.

The Germanic migrations are of great interest to Germanic dialect grouping because Gothic, Old High German and Old English are all colonial languages.

III the subject of Germanic tribal movements is taken up. The delimitation of Germanic in relation to the other Indo-European languages is dealt with in ch. I the Germanic languages are introduced, an outline of their earliest attestations is given, and finally the dialectal status of the early runic language is discussed. The three preceding chapters should be seen as useful background information to the two central chapters. These topics are discussed in the two longest chapters of the book (IV and V). The book is especially concerned with the grouping of the Germanic languages: with the research history of this much-debated question and with a discussion of the methods applied to past attempts and indeed applicable to future research in the field. Baggrund og gruppe'ring (Odense University Press, 1979), which has been out of print for several years. The present volume is a revised and translated version of De germanske sprog. Parallels (partly) attributable to other factors 4. Starnmbaum theory, wave theory and substratum theory 2. Recent attempts at Gennanic dialect grouping V Wrede, Maurer and the West Gennanic problem 3. Early attempts at Gennanic dialect grouping 2. The Anglo-Saxons IV The Grouping of the Gennanic Languages 1. Linguistic features characteristic of Gennanic The position of Gennanic within Indo-European 3. Gennanic: An Indo-European Language Group 1. paper) British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nielsen, Hans Frede, 1943The Germanic languages. The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39-1984 The University of Alabama Press TuscaloosaĬopyright © 1989 by The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 00 The Germanic Languages Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations Hans Frede Nielsen Parallels (partly) attributable to other factors 134

Stammbaum theory, wave theory and substratum theory 109ģ. Recent attempts at Germanic dialect grouping 89ġ. Wrede, Maurer and the West Germanic problem 72Ĥ. Early attempts at Germanic dialect grouping 67Ģ. The Grouping of the Germanic Languages 67ġ. Linguistic features characteristic of Germanic 28Ģ. The position of Germanic within Indo-European 18ģ. Germanic: An Indo-European Language Group 15Ģ.

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