Geschichte der deutschen Sprache

Jacob Grimm's ground-breaking 1848 history of German, which includes his landmark description of sound shift.

Jacob Grimm (Author)

9781108006620, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 November 2009

480 pages
22.9 x 2.7 x 15.2 cm, 0.7 kg

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.

21. Die Hessen und Bataven
22. Hermunduren
23. Die Niederdeutschen
24. Friesen und Chauken
25. Langobarden und Burgunden
26. Die Übringen Oststämme
27. Scandinavien
28. Die Edda
29. Germanen und Deutsche
30. Rückblick
31. Deutsche Dialekte
32. Der Ablaut
33. Die Reduplication
34. Schwache Verba
35. Verschobnes Praeteritum
36. Die Vocale der Declination
37. Der Instrumentalis
38. Schwache Nomina
39. Der dualis
40. Recht und Link
41. Milch und Fleisch
42. Schluss.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]