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42I GERMANIC LANGUAGES I. GERMAN STUDIES LANGUAGE By MARY FLEET, Oxford I. GENERAL WORKS It would seem that structuralism is now widely accepted in Germany, in the West as well as the East. This is negatively borne out by Gipper and Schwarz, Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung (cf. YWML, xxv, 287), fasc. 7 (the final section of vol. 1), which, in view of the popularity of structuralist methods and terminology, restates its own theory and methodology at much greater length than was at first envisaged. As a manifesto it is perhaps oversimplified, but the usefulness of the Handbuch remains beyond question. Geschichte der deutschen Sprache I (Grundlagen der Germanistik 5), Berlin, E. Schmidt, I92 pp., by F. Tschirch (who owes much to 'Sprachinhaltsforschung') is a most readable account covering the earliest stages to EMHG, with up-to-date bibls and clear tables and maps. The index is too condensed and there is no reference in the text to the exponents of the various theories discussed. Nevertheless this is a helpful publication, if on a rather 'popular' level. W. B. Lockwood's An informal history of the German Language, Cambridge, Heffer, I965, viii + 265 pp., is addressed to beginners, being a simply told
The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies – Brill
Published: Mar 11, 1967
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