Beschreibung:
Wayne Harbet is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Linguistics, Cornell University.
Comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, providing a detailed account of their morphology, phonology and syntax.
1. Introduction; 2. The Germanic lexicon; 3. The sound systems of Germanic: inventories, alternations and structures; 4. The Germanic nominal system: paradigmatic and syntagmatic variation; 5. The verbal systems of Germanic: paradigmatic and syntagmatic comparison; 6. The syntax of the clause.