A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages

@article{Fulk2018ACG,
  title={A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages},
  author={Robert D. Fulk},
  journal={Studies in Germanic Linguistics},
  year={2018}
}
  • R. Fulk
  • Published 10 August 2018
  • Linguistics
  • Studies in Germanic Linguistics
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared, with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic… 
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