| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
German language -- History
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German language -- Social aspects
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Sociolinguistics -- Germany
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- German.
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German language
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German language -- Social aspects
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Sociolinguistics
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199750658 |
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0199750653 |
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1282565214 |
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9781282565210 |
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