Teaching, Language & Reference

German Language History

An Introduction to Diachronic German Linguistics

by Peter Ernst

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This book gives a systematic overview of the history of the German language from Old High German to the present by

  • describing the prehistory of the German language: Indo-Germanic and Germanic,
  • depicting language change at all language levels: sound, word, sentence, text, as well as
  • explaining how the language is embedded in intellectual and cultural history.

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Author Biography

Peter Ernst is university professor at the Institute of German Studies of the University of Vienna, Austria, and member of the Council for German Orthography in Mannheim, Germany.

Facultas Verlag

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