Sanders Ruth H.
Sanders Ruth H. - The Languages Of Scandinavia Seven Sisters Of The North - Paperback
Sanders Ruth H. - The Languages Of Scandinavia Seven Sisters Of The North - Paperback
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Description: From fjords to mountains schools of herring to herds of reindeer Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known however is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages Scandinavia has traditionally been understood as linguistically bifurcated between its five Germanic languages (Danish Norwegian Swedish Icelandic and Faroese) and its two Finno - Ugric ones (Finnish ands mi). In The Languages of Scandinavia Ruth H. Sanders takes a pioneering approach: she considers these Seven Sisters of the North together. While the two linguistic families that comprise Scandinavia's languages ultimately have differing origins the Seven Sisters have coexisted side by side for millennia. As Sanders reveals a crisscrossing of names territories and even to some extent language genetics intimate language contact has created a body of shared culture experience and linguistic influences that is illuminated when the story of these seven languages is told as one. Exploring everything from the famed whalebone Lewis Chessmen of Norse origin to the interactions between the Black Death and the Norwegian language The Languages of Scandinavia offers profound insight into languages with a cultural impact deep - rooted and far - reaching from the Icelandic sagas to Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's internationally popular Millennium trilogy. Sanders's book is both an accessible work of linguistic scholarship and a fascinating intellectual history of language.
Title: The Languages Of Scandinavia Seven Sisters Of The North
Author(s): Sanders Ruth H.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226759753
Pages: 224 Pages, 6 Halftones, 3 Line Drawings, 4 Tables
Publication Date: 3/15/2021
Category: Historical & Comparative Linguistics
Description: From fjords to mountains schools of herring to herds of reindeer Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known however is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages Scandinavia has traditionally been understood as linguistically bifurcated between its five Germanic languages (Danish Norwegian Swedish Icelandic and Faroese) and its two Finno - Ugric ones (Finnish ands mi). In The Languages of Scandinavia Ruth H. Sanders takes a pioneering approach: she considers these Seven Sisters of the North together. While the two linguistic families that comprise Scandinavia's languages ultimately have differing origins the Seven Sisters have coexisted side by side for millennia. As Sanders reveals a crisscrossing of names territories and even to some extent language genetics intimate language contact has created a body of shared culture experience and linguistic influences that is illuminated when the story of these seven languages is told as one. Exploring everything from the famed whalebone Lewis Chessmen of Norse origin to the interactions between the Black Death and the Norwegian language The Languages of Scandinavia offers profound insight into languages with a cultural impact deep - rooted and far - reaching from the Icelandic sagas to Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's internationally popular Millennium trilogy. Sanders's book is both an accessible work of linguistic scholarship and a fascinating intellectual history of language.
Title: The Languages Of Scandinavia Seven Sisters Of The North
Author(s): Sanders Ruth H.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226759753
Pages: 224 Pages, 6 Halftones, 3 Line Drawings, 4 Tables
Publication Date: 3/15/2021
Category: Historical & Comparative Linguistics
