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Comparative Syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic - Linguistic, Literary and Historical Implications (Paperback)
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Comparative Syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic - Linguistic, Literary and Historical Implications (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Historical Linguistics, 1
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Study of the syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic has for long
been dominated by the impressions of early philologists. Their
assertions that these languages were � free in their word-order
were for many years unchallenged. Only within the last two decades
has it been demonstrated that the word-order of each shows regular
patterns which approach the status of rules, and which may be
precisely described. This book takes the subject one step further
by offering a comparison of the syntax of Old English and Old
Icelandic, the two best-preserved Old Germanic languages.
Over-whelmingly the two languages show the same word-order patterns
- as do the other Old Germanic languages, at least as far as can be
determined from the fragments which have survived. It has long been
recognised that Old English and Old Icelandic have a high
proportion of common lexis and very similar morphology, yet the
convention has been to emphasise the differences between the two as
representatives respectively of the West and North sub-families of
Germanic. The argument of this book is that the similar word-order
of the two should instead lead us to stress the similarities
between the two languages. Old English and Old Icelandic were
sufficiently close to be mutually comprehensible. This thesis
receives copious support from historical and literary texts. Our
understanding of the Old Germanic world should be modified by the
concept of a common � Northern Speech which provided a common
Germanic ethnic identity and a platform for the free flow of
cultural ideas.
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