History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us
with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development
of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to
restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate
by treating the history of the Germanic languages as a history of
its speakers. It focuses on the role that language contact has
played in creating the Germanic languages, between the first
millennium BC and the crucially important early medieval period.
Chapters on the origins of English, German, Dutch, and the Germanic
language family as a whole illustrate how the history of the sounds
of these languages provide a key that unlocks the secret of their
genesis: speakers of Latin, Celtic and Balto-Finnic switched to
speaking Germanic and in the process introduced a 'foreign accent'
that caught on and spread at the expense of types of Germanic that
were not affected by foreign influence. The book is aimed at
linguists, historians, archaeologists and anyone who is interested
in what languages can tell us about the origins of their speakers.
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