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This book provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructible prehistory to the present day. A key to understanding how any human language works is understanding how that language developed over time. German speakers, as well as language learners and teachers are often puzzled by many questions about the German language: How did German come to have so many different dialects and close linguistic cousins like Dutch andPlattdeutsch? Why does German have 'umlaut' vowels and why do they play so many different roles in the grammar (noun plura
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A History of German, Joseph Salmons
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- Title
- A History of German
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joseph Salmons
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ. Press
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0199697949
- ISBN13
- 9780199697946
- Series
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
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- This book provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructible prehistory to the present day. A key to understanding how any human language works is understanding how that language developed over time. German speakers, as well as language learners and teachers are often puzzled by many questions about the German language: How did German come to have so many different dialects and close linguistic cousins like Dutch andPlattdeutsch? Why does German have 'umlaut' vowels and why do they play so many different roles in the grammar (noun plura