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The Grouping Of The Germanic Languages: A Critical Review, Michael-Christopher Todd Highlander
The Grouping Of The Germanic Languages: A Critical Review, Michael-Christopher Todd Highlander
Theses and Dissertations
The literature regarding the grouping of the Germanic languages will be reviewed and a potential solution to the problems of the division of the Germanic language will be proposed. This is however quite a complex task. Most of the Germanic languages share a great number of similarities, and individual languages often have features common to more than one group. Old Saxon, Old Low Franconian, and Old English are examples of languages that make the grouping much more complex than it appears on the surface. The grouping Germanic languages has been debated by linguists since the 19th century, and there are …