Date: 28-Jan-2008 From: Elyse Turr <elyse.turroup.com> Subject: The Syntax of Old Norse: Faarlund E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Syntax of Old Norse
Subtitle: With a Survey of Inflectional Morphology and Complete Biography
Published: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Jan Terje Faarlund
Paperback: ISBN: 9780199235599 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 45.00
Abstract:
This book offers the first account of Old Norse syntax for almost a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. The language of the Vikings and of the Old Icelandic sagas is the best documented medieval Germanic language and the author is able to present a comprehensive analysis of its syntax and overviews of its phonology and morphology. He supports his analyses with examples taken from Norwegian and Icelandic manuscript editions. Professor Faarlund's approach is descriptive, in a generative framework with a minimum of technical detail. He includes a complete bibliography of Old Norse syntax.
The book is intended for advanced students and scholars of historical linguistics, Germanic and Scandinavian languages, Norse philology, and all others with a serious interest in Nordic languages, civilizations, and history.
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Syntax
Subject Language(s): Old Norse (non)
Language Family(ies): Germanic
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