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GERMAN STUDIES: LANGUAGE

GERMAN STUDIES: LANGUAGE GERMANIC LANGUA.GES I. GERMAN STUDIES LANGUAGE By KENNETH J. NoRTHCOTT, Associate Professor of Older German Literature in the University of Chicago I. GENERAL WoRKS From the point of view of the English-speaking Germanist the out­ standing event of the year is the publication of the first part of the new and long-needed, Muret-Sanders Langenscheidt's Encyclo­ paedic Dictionary of the English and German Languages, vol. 1 (A-M), Berlin, Langenscheidt; London, Methuen; New York, Barnes and Noble. In spite of a somewhat American bias, which is to be expected as the editor-in-chief is Professor Otto Springer, the work, which has been produced by a consortium of some fifty scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, reminds us vividly how much we have needed such a dictionary. There is no place here for a detailed criticism so that it must suffice to say that Muret­ Sanders is indispensable. Otherwise, the year has been charac­ terized by a continuation of the old patterns and the bibliographer often wishes that the 'wind of change' would blow a little more strongly across the pages of some of our learned journals. The relative lack of interest in structural linguistics which seems to characterize much of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

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GERMANIC LANGUA.GES I. GERMAN STUDIES LANGUAGE By KENNETH J. NoRTHCOTT, Associate Professor of Older German Literature in the University of Chicago I. GENERAL WoRKS From the point of view of the English-speaking Germanist the out­ standing event of the year is the publication of the first part of the new and long-needed, Muret-Sanders Langenscheidt's Encyclo­ paedic Dictionary of the English and German Languages, vol. 1 (A-M), Berlin, Langenscheidt; London, Methuen; New York, Barnes and Noble. In spite of a somewhat American bias, which is to be expected as the editor-in-chief is Professor Otto Springer, the work, which has been produced by a consortium of some fifty scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, reminds us vividly how much we have needed such a dictionary. There is no place here for a detailed criticism so that it must suffice to say that Muret­ Sanders is indispensable. Otherwise, the year has been charac­ terized by a continuation of the old patterns and the bibliographer often wishes that the 'wind of change' would blow a little more strongly across the pages of some of our learned journals. The relative lack of interest in structural linguistics which seems to characterize much of the

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The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies – Brill

Published: Mar 11, 1963

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