Author: Herwig Wolfram
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: peoples, germanic, empire, roman
Number of Pages: 379
Published: 1997-11-26
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0520085116
ISBN-13: 9780520085114
Author: D. H. Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: world, germanic, history, language
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2000-08-28
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0521794234
ISBN-13: 9780521794237
This book offers a distinctive and accessible approach to the earliest encounters of the barbarian societies of Northern Europe with classical antiquity and with early Christianity. It brings together linguistic evidence from across Europe and dating from before Caesar to about 900 AD, to shed light on important aspects of Germanic culture. It shows how historical phonology and semantics, often avoided by nonspecialists, can provide important clues for historians and archaeologists of the period. Likewise, it demonstrates that philologists and linguists ignore historical evidence at their peri
Author: Wolfgang Klein
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: linguistics, germanic, language, time
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1994-08-16
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0415104122
ISBN-13: 9780415104128
Casting a penetrating look at problems of tense and aspect, the present perfect puzzle, the duration puzzle and the semantics of temporal expressions, Wolfgang Klein considers the various means at languages’ disposal to express temporality. As a unique intervention in the field of linguistics, Klein’s study of language and its semantic temporal devices provides an indispensable overview of all the problems shrouding the complexities of tense and aspect in language.
Author: Alexander Murray
Publisher: PIMS
Keywords: texts, studies, structure, kinship, germanic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1983-01-01
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0888440650
ISBN-13: 9780888440655
Author: Gerwin Strobl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: britain, perceptions, nazi, isle, germanic
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2000-11-13
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 0521782651
ISBN-13: 9780521782654
Despite Hitler’s tactical duplicity at Munich, there is overwhelming evidence that one of the Nazis’ fundamental objectives was to forge an alliance with Britain. This book discusses how the Nazis attempted to emulate the "ruthlessness" of the British Empire as they sought to enslave eastern Europe. It explores a wide range of sources, in popular culture and the media, diaries, secret police files, and views of the Nazi leadership, to show that there was a surprisingly enduring affection for Britain and British culture among ordinary Germans, even during the virulent anti-British p
Author: Carole M. Cusack
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: religious, studies, cassell, peoples, among, germanic, conversion
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-11-06
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 0304701556
ISBN-13: 9780304701551
A study of mission and conversion among the Germanic kingdoms, this book traces the transformation of the late antique world into medieval Europe through the acceptance of Christianity. It is grounded in contemporary anthropological discourses, and focuses on the encounter between the Christian missionaries and the Germanic kings, an encounter which resulted in a shift in belief concerning the ultimate sources of power. The forms of Christianity developed by the converted are seen in the context of their pre-Christian beliefs and the need for continuity amongst change.
Author: Renaat Declerck
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: germanic, linguistics, discourse, structure, english, tense
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1991-10
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0415061512
ISBN-13: 9780415061513
Tense is one of the most controversial areas of grammar. The problems and interest in the subject have led to an impressive number of books and articles. Yet, despite the amount of work produced, nothing approaching a consensus has emerged, merely a series of conflicting theories and analyses. According to the author, this follows from the fact that until now there has been no theoretical instrument to enable the linguist to interpret the data correctly. This book attempts to provide such a framework. It is not written from the viewpoint of any particular linguistic theory and does not presupp
