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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2010
Print publication year:
2009
First published in:
1917
Online ISBN:
9780511706202
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511706202
Subjects:
European Language and Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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The distinguished French linguist Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) was a pupil of Saussure and one of the most important researchers and teachers of the twentieth century in the field of Indo-European languages, counting among his own pupils Benveniste, Dumézil and Martinet. In this book, first published in 1917, Meillet shows the unique features which mark out the Germanic languages (including English) from the rest of the Indo-European family. Acknowledging that the earliest written examples become available only long after 'proto-Germanic' had split into its various successor languages, he nonetheless supplies evidence both for the original language and for the developments which led to that splitting. His conclusion is that although the Germanic languages are indisputably Indo-European, even the most conservative (modern German) has moved a long way from its roots, and that English - both in grammar and in vocabulary - has moved furthest of all.

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