The linguistic analysis of runic inscriptions on the Continent tends to focus on individual texts or on groups of texts seen as parallel. We can advance our understanding of the state of Continental Germanic dialects in the 5th-7th centuries by examining the evidence for the major sound changes in a larger dataset. The study begins with a brief discussion of the Proto-Germanic phonemic system and the major processes by which the systems of Old High German (OHG) and Old Saxon (OS) develop from it. The main body of the work consists of the analysis of a corpus of 90 inscriptions...
The linguistic analysis of runic inscriptions on the Continent tends to focus on individual texts or on groups of texts seen as parallel. We can advan...
Der Sammelband vereint Beitrage von Sprachwissenschaftlern und Historikern zuPhanomenen des Sprach- und Kulturkontaktes in europaischen Personennamen des Mittelalters. Im Mittelpunkt stehen kulturhistorische, historische und philologische Fragestellungen, insbesondere in den Bereichen der Migration, der Akkulturation und der Integration in multilingualen Gesellschaften bzw. in Grenzgebieten. Die Untersuchungen widmen sich schwerpunktmaig den Verhaltnissen im frankischen Merowinger- und Karolingerreich und in Italien. Beitrage zu judischen Namentraditionen auf der Iberischen Halbinsel sowie...
Der Sammelband vereint Beitrage von Sprachwissenschaftlern und Historikern zuPhanomenen des Sprach- und Kulturkontaktes in europaischen Personennam...
Wolfgang Krause was one of the founders of German-language runology. The study of runes can uncover clues about everyday ancient life as well as about linguistic history - a cultural study at the juncture between linguistics, philology, archaeology, and history.
Wolfgang Krause was one of the founders of German-language runology. The study of runes can uncover clues about everyday ancient life as well as ab...
