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Phonological Evidence from the Continental Runic Inscriptions (Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde – Ergaenzungsbaende): 79
Author(s): Martin Findell (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 1 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 557 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110259346
- ISBN-13: 9783110259346
Book Description
In using runic inscriptions as evidence for sound change, we tend to focus on the interpretation of individual texts, rather than examining the dataset as a whole.This study aims at the phonological analysis of a corpus of 90 runic inscriptions on the Continent to test claims that the phonological processes which characterise Old High German and Old Saxon are at work in the 5th-7th centuries.The study presents significant challenges to existing models of these sound changes.
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Martin Findell, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
