Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.

Konig, Ekkehard; van der Auwera, Johan

1. The Germanic Languages 2. Gothic and the Reconstruction of Proto-German 3. Old and Middle Scandinavian 4. Old and Middle Continental West Germanic 5. Old and Middle English 6. Icelandic 7. Faroese 8. Norwegian 9. Swedish 10. Danish 11. German 12. Yiddish 13. Pennysylvanian German 14. Dutch 15. Afrikaans 16. English 17. Frisian 18. Germanic Creoles