Abstract
The Germanic languages include some of the world's most widely spoken and thoroughly researched languages. English has become a global language that serves as a lingua franca in many parts of the world and has an estimated 1.12 billon speakers (Simons and Fennig 2018). German, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish, and Norwegian have also been studied and described extensively from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. In addition to the standard varieties of these languages, there are available descriptions of many nonstandard varieties as well as of regional and minority languages, such as Frisian and Low German. There are several possibilities to consider when putting together a handbook of a language family. One would be to have a chapter devoted to each language, as in König and Auwera (1993).
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781108378291 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781108421867 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 16 2020 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Social Sciences