Contact and the History of Germanic Languages

Handbook of Language Contact

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 406-431

  Roberge, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Contact and the history of Germanic Languages; Europa Vasconica et Semitica; Germanic contacts with Finno Ugric; Germanic languages, group of languages tracing origin to a common ancestor; Language contact following the breakup of Proto Germanic; Non Indo European substratal influences; Norse expeditions of so called Viking Age exercise in wealth by multiple means, trade, piracy, colonization; Superposition Christianity, placing Latin in a privileged relationship with respect to metropolitan Germanic languages; The Bavarians an Elbe Germanic group; The new population, mere adstratum or superstratum to a long established set of peoples

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885510115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318159.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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