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1 online resource (vii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Germanic beginnings. Timeline : from the earliest settlements in Northern Europe to the beginning of the Christian era -- The Germanic languages survive the Romans. Timeline : from the battle of Kalkriese to the end of the Western Roman Empire -- A fork in the road : high German, low German. Timeline : from the beginning of the middle ages to the Protestant reformation -- Bible German and the birth of a standard language. Timeline : from the beginning of the reformation to the beginning of the first industrial revolution -- The German language gets a state. Timeline : from the unification of Germany to the beginning of World War I -- Postwar comeback times two : a hight point, a double fall from grace, and recoveries. Timeline : from the end of World War I to the present. |
| Summary |
Thousands of years ago, seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic, anthropological, and historical research, Sanders presents a brilliant biography of the language as it evolved across the millennia. She sheds light on the influence of such events as the bloody three-day Battle of Kalkriese, which permanently halted the incursion of both the Romans and the Latin language into northern Europe, and the publication of. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
German language -- History.
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German language. |
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History. |
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German language -- Social aspects.
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German language -- Social aspects. |
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Sociolinguistics -- Germany.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Germany. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sanders, Ruth H. German : biography of a language. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780195388459 (DLC) 2009038656 (OCoLC)437186866 |
| ISBN |
9780199750658 (electronic book) |
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0199750653 (electronic book) |
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9780195388459 (alkaline paper) |
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