Download or read book The Order of Words in Old Norse Prose written by Ludwig Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Order of Words in Old Norse Prose: With Occasional References to the Other Germanic Dialects Of all the Teutonic dialects, only the Anglo-Saxon and the Old Low German have been examined thoroughly from the standpoint of word-order, the Anglo-Saxon in elaborate treatises by Kube, Smith, and Gorrell, the Old Low German in an excellent dissertation by Ries. Of the other great Germanic dialects, neither Old High German nor Old Norse is adequately represented, although Erdmann in his Otfried Syntax, as well as Holthausen and Kahle in their Icelandic grammars, could not help touching the subject slightly, while Mogk has discussed briefly the Scandinavian inversion after the co-ordinate particle "ok." As regards the Gothic, I would say that an attempt on my part to investigate its order of words has led me to believe that, on account of its being almost a word-for-word translation, it is a dangerous thing to found upon it principles and theories. On the other hand, the occasional deviations of the Gothic from the Greek concern minor points and will be embodied in a separate paper. It is hardly necessary to point out that the order of words of a language reveals its genius to no inconsiderable degree and thus constitutes an important chapter in its syntax. Due attention has been called to it by eminent scholars, not only in the line of Germanics, but also in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and the Romance languages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
