Focusing on the sociolinguistic history of Germanic languages, the current volume challenges the traditional teleological approach of language historiography. T

Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.

This book provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructible prehistory to the present day. It is supp

Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This bo