First Steps to Study and Master Life Skills Grade 1 Learner's Book Afrikaans translation: Geschichte der deutschen Sprache: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics)

First Steps to Study and Master Life Skills Grade 1 Learner's Book Afrikaans translation: Geschichte der deutschen Sprache: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics)

by JacobGrimm (Author)

Synopsis

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) became a household name around the world through the collections of fairy tales he compiled with his brother Wilhelm. Jacob's specialism was the history of the German language, which he studied in the broader context of Indo-European philology. Others working in this burgeoning field included the older scholar Rasmus Rask and Grimm's contemporary Franz Bopp (also published in this series). Grimm's two-volume Geschichte der deutschen Sprache, reissued here, was first published in 1848. It is noteworthy especially for the chapter on the major sound shift now known as Grimm's Law or die erste deutsche Lautverschiebung, which sets out regular mappings between Germanic consonants and those found in earlier Indo-European languages, such as English father and Latin pater. The book also contains a wealth of comparative material on phonology, vocabulary and grammar within Germanic and across the Indo-European spectrum.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 26 Nov 2009

ISBN 10: 1108006620
ISBN 13: 9781108006620
Book Overview: Jacob Grimm's ground-breaking 1848 history of German, which includes his landmark description of sound shift.