LL-L "Resources" 2004.02.09 (07) [E]

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From: Steven Hanson <hanayatori at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Resources

From: "schwambs" <schwambs at slu.edu>
Subject: Questions from a graduate student

Hello,
  My name is Sara Schwamb and I recently subscribed to the
Lowlands-L listserve.  I am currently a PhD student in
medieval English literature and one of my areas of interest
is the history of the English language. I would like to
start learning (or learning about) Old Saxon and Old Frisian
and am not sure where to start.  The Lowlands homepage
provides an extensive list of resources, but I was hoping
you might have a suggestion for where to start.  I also
wonder if you know how to find out which
universities/scholars in the lowland regions (or beyond)
offer research opportunities for graduate or postdoctoral
work in this field. I have tried looking for this
information in a variety of ways and have found some
information, but researching on the internet has proven very
time consuming. I am hoping that by asking a real live
person, I might be able to learn more or at least be pointed
in the right direction. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Sara Schwamb
St. Louis, MO

Hello Sara,

You might find Orrin W. Robinson's Old English and Its Closest Relatives an
interesting read.  It surveys not only Old English, but also Old Saxon, Old
Frisian, Old Low Franconian, Old High German, Old Norse, and Gothic.

As a side note, there has been a discussion going on about reflexive and
possessive forms in "zich/sich/sig" and "sin/sit/sine", etc.  In this very
same book, I've found that all of the above mentioned languages, except Old
English, Old Saxon, and to a certain degree, Old Frisian, used forms of
"zich/sich/sig" and "sin/sit/sine".  Old Frisian used sîn as possessive, but
did not have a similar reflexive pronoun.  Old English and Old Saxon had
neither, and so used forms similar to what another poster mentioned was the
case in Jutish, eg. "hans/hendes/dens/dets" rather than "sin/sit/sine"
(sorry, I don't have the original post to quote from).  This suggests to me
that the "s-forms" for reflexive and possessive are a common Germanic
feature.

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From: R. F. Hahn <lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net>
Subject: Resources

Thanks for the interesting info above, Steven.

Folks, if you want to respond to the last paragraph, please do so under
"Morphology" in order to keep that topic separate from "Resources."

Thanks.

Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn
Founder & Administrator, Lowlands-L
lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net
http://www.lowlands-l.net

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