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Free Download Joseph Emonds, "The North Germanic Morphosyntax of Modern English"
English | ISBN: B0D4YVBNNM | 2024 | 284 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 5 MB
This book argues that Middle English – and hence Modern English – is a direct descendent of Anglo Norse, the language of Viking settlers who invaded and ruled the north and east of England (the so-called Danelaw) for about 200 years preceding the Norman conquest. The authors challenge the widely accepted assumption that Middle English descends from Anglo-Saxon. Presenting over 20 arguments in morphology and syntax, they show that the patterns found in standard history of English sources derive from the North Germanic Scandinavian languages. The book shows that, while Danes ruled all England (1013-1066), their Anglo-Norse, lexically but not grammatically close to Anglo-Saxon, superseded the latter throughout England. Sentential word order, modern phrasal verbs, stranded prepositions, and standard regular noun plurals, phonetic

Free Download Hans Frede Nielsen, "The Germanic Languages: Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations"
English | ISBN: 0817304231 | | 192 pages | AZW3 | 923 KB
A revised and translated version of De germanske sprog. Baggrund og gruppe’ring (Odense University Press, 1979), which has been out of print for several years

Free Download The Germanic Languages by Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera
English | 1994 | ISBN: 041505768X | 648 Pages | PDF | 33.8 MB
Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.

Free Download Gabriele Esposito, "Armies of the Germanic Peoples, 200 BC to AD 500: History, Organization and Equipment "
English | ISBN: 1526772701 | 2021 | 176 pages | PDF | 37 MB
Gabriele Esposito presents an overview of the military history of the Germanic peoples of this period and describes in detail the weapons and tactics they employed on the battlefield. He starts by showing how, from very early on, the Germanic communities were heavily influenced by Celtic culture. He then moves on to describe the major military events, starting with the first major encounter between the Germanic tribes and the Romans: the invasion by the Cimbri and Teutones. Julius Caesar’s campaigns against German groups seeking to enter Gaul are described in detail as is the pivotal Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, which effectively halted Roman expansion into Germany and for centuries fixed the Rhine as the border between the Roman and Germanic civilizations. Escalating pressure of Germanic raids and invasions was a major factor in the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.

Free Download Peter Schrijver, "Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages "
English | ISBN: 0415355486 | 2013 | 244 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the Germanic languages as a history of its speakers. It focuses on the role that language contact has played in creating the Germanic languages, between the first millennium BC and the crucially important early medieval period. Chapters on the origins of English, German, Dutch, and the Germanic language family as a whole illustrate how the history of the sounds of these languages provide a key that unlocks the secret of their genesis: speakers of Latin, Celtic and Balto-Finnic switched to speaking Germanic and in the process introduced a ‘foreign accent’ that caught on and spread at the expense of types of Germanic that were not affected by foreign influence. The book is aimed at linguists, historians, archaeologists and anyone who is interested in what languages can tell us about the origins of their speakers.

Free Download Frederik Hartmann, "Germanic Phylogeny "
English | ISBN: 0198872739 | 2023 | 304 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the early Germanic families and of their diversification from their most recent common ancestor, Proto-Germanic. It also proposes a novel computational approach to the problem of linguistic diversification more broadly, using agent-based simulation of speech communities over time. This new method is presented alongside more traditional phylogenetic inference, and the respective results are compared and evaluated. Frederik Hartmann demonstrates that the traditional and novel methods each capture different aspects of this highly complex real-world process; crucially, the new computational approach proposed here offers a new way of investigating the wave-like properties of language relatedness that were previously less accessible. As well as validating the findings of earlier research, the results of this study also generate new insights and shed light on much-debated issues in the field. The conclusion is that the break-up of Germanic should be understood as a gradual disintegration process in which tree-like branching effects are rare.

Free Download Anglo-Saxons: History of the Germanic Inhabitants of England by Kelly Mass, Chris Newman, Efalon Acies
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B4PVVFCX | 1 hour and 5 minutes | MP3@256 kbps | 120 Mb
In the Early Middle Ages, the Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that resided in England. They traced their roots back to the arrival of incomers to Britain in the fifth century, who originated from the North Sea coastlands of continental Europe. The ethnogenesis of the Anglo-Saxons, on the other hand, happened in Britain, and the identity wasn’t just imported. The contact between getting in groups of people from some Germanic tribe, both amongst themselves and with native British populations, led to the facility of an Anglo-Saxon identity. A lot of the native tribes ultimately incorporated and embraced Anglo-Saxon society and language. The Anglo-Saxons established the idea of England and the Kingdom of England, and the modern English language owes practically 26 percent of its vocabulary to them, including the great bulk of words used in daily discussion.
The Anglo-Saxon period in history describes the period in Britain from roughly 450 to 1066, starting with their preliminary settlement and ending with the Norman Conquest.