INTRODUCTION TO GERMANIC PHILOLOGY

The textbook teaches students the general and distinctive features of the Romance and Germanic languages, and on this basis their grouping, the general laws of historical development, the processes of formation and development of these languages, their phonetic and grammatical features and basic vocabulary introduces events and their impact on language development. Linguistics is the branch of Philology which deals with the study of the theoretical and practical problems of language functioning: system, structure and usage. The discipline we are presenting you within the hours given for this subject ¿ that is ¿An Introduction to Germanic Philology¿ ¿ deals with the problem of working out common features of the Germanic group of languages related to each other by the links of common origin.