The Oxford Encyclopedia of Germanic Linguistics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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The Germanic language family is comparatively large, typologically diverse, and sociolinguistically varied. It includes some of the best-described languages in the world, such as English, German, and Dutch, alongside smaller languages like Faroese, Frisian, and Luxembourgish, all of which ultimately trace their origins to Proto-Indo-European. Research on Germanic languages reflects the historical development of linguistics as a discipline and continues to draw on a wide range of contemporary methods. These include corpus analysis, experimental approaches, variationist and contact linguistics, and cognitive linguistics. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Germanic Linguistics adopts a comparative and typological perspective, highlighting both shared features across the language family and distinctive traits of individual languages. Edited by Sebastian Kürschner and Antje Dammel, alongside Associate Editors Jarich Hoekstra, Steffen Höder, Oliver Schallert, and Freek Van de Velde, the volume brings together 75 contributions from experts in their respective fields. Each article has undergone rigorous editorial and peer review designed to capture the dynamic and evolving nature of research on Germanic languages. The Encyclopedia covers a broad range of languages, from those still in use to those that are extinct (such as Gothic), as well as earlier stages of modern languages, including Old English and Old High German. In doing so, it offers insight into emerging areas of study while providing a comprehensive and authoritative reference work for the field of linguistics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-26
Mått:178 x 254 x undefined mm
Vikt:3 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:700
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190916091

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Sebastian Kürschner is a full professor of German Linguistics at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. He finished his doctoral studies with a dissertation on change of noun declension classes in Germanic languages at the University of Freiburg in 2007. After a post-doc position at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), he became professor of variationist linguistics and language contact at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, before he took his current position in 2016. His main research topics are contrastive studies of Germanic languages, historical morphology, mutual intelligibility of closely related languages, language minorities, and onomastics. Antje Dammel is a full professor of German Linguistics at the University of Münster, Germany. Her dissertation (University of Mainz, 2009) investigates change of conjugation classes from a comparative Germanicperspective. After a junior professorship at University of Mainz and a professorship of German linguistics (Variation and Change) at University of Freiburg in 2015, she took up her current position in Münster in 2017. Her research interests include morphology and morphosyntax, pragmatics, and onomastics, especially from diachronic and typological perspectives.