Germanic languages -- History
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2018), by R. D. Fulk (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- The Dawn of Dutch: Language Contact in the Western Low Countries Before 1200 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017), by Michiel de Vaan (PDF and Epub with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today (festschrift honoring Nils-Lennart Johanneson; Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, c2015), ed. by Philip Shaw, Britt Erman, Gunnel Melchers, and Peter Sundskist (multiple formats with commentary at Stockholm University Press)
- The Future of English? A Guide to Forecasting the Popularity of the English Language in the 21st Century (c2000), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
- English Next: Why Global English May Mean the End of "English as a Foreign Language" (c2006), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
- The Making of English (New York and London: Macmillan, 1924), by Henry Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tradition Today: The E-Journal of the Centre for English Traditional Heritage (full serial archives)
- Culinary Linguistics: The Chef's Special (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), ed. by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius, and Susanne Hucklenbroich-Ley (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- On the Study of Words, by Richard Chenevix Trench (Gutenberg text)
- An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (new and revised edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon press, ca. 1910), by Walter W. Skeat
- Online Etymology Dictionary, by Douglas R. Harper (searchable HTML at etymonline.com)
- The Origin of Medical Terms (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1949), by Henry Alan Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
- A New Universal Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing All the Terms Used in Science, Literature, and Art (2 volumes; London: C. Routledge and Co., 1852), by John Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant (London: Printed for T. Cox, 1730), ed. by N. Bailey, contrib. by George Gordon and Philip Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- DCHP-2: The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (second edition, 2017), ed. by Stefan Dollinger and Margery Fee (illustrated HTML with commentary at dchp.ca)
- Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, by Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- A Dictionary of the Old English Language, Compiled From Writings of the XII, XIII, XIV, AND XV Centuries (second edition, 1873), by Francis Henry Stratmann
- A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
- Patterns of Change in 18th-Century English: A Sociolinguistic Approach (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2018), ed. by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin, and Tanja Säily (PDF and Epub with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- The Evolution of English Lexicography, by James A. H. Murray (Gutenberg text)
- Distancing English: A Chapter in the History of the Inexpressible (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Page Richards (PDF at Ohio State)
- America Not Discovered by Columbus: A Historical Sketch of the Discovery of America by the Norsemen, in the Tenth Century (with an appendix on Scandinavian languages; Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co.; London: Trübner and Co., 1874), by Rasmus B. Anderson
- The Norwegian Language in America: A Study in Bilingual Behavior (2 volumes; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953), by Einar Haugen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Det Norsk-islandske Skjaldesprog omtr. 800-1300 (in Danish; Copenhagen: S. L. Møllers Bogtrykkeri, 1901), by Finnur Jónsson
- Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, Attrition and Change (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2015), ed. by Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joe Salmons (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Germanic languages- An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities (1956 reprint with commentary), by Elizabeth Elstob, contrib. by Charles Peake (Gutenberg text)
- A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language, With Especial Reference to English and German, by G. H. Balg, contrib. by Francis Andrew March
- Dictionary of the Scots Language (electronic edition) (searchable HTML in the UK)
- Die Siedelungen in Anhalt: Ortschaften und Wüstungen, mit Erklärung ihrer Namen (in German; Halle a.S.: Waisenhaus, 1905), by Gustav Hey and Karl Schulze
- Om Navnet Ýmir (in Danish; Copenhagen: B. Lunos Boktrykkeri, 1874), by Konráð Gíslason (page images at HathiTrust)
- Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok (in Norwegian; Kristiania: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), 1919), by Alf Torp
- Da Kine Talk: From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972), by Elizabeth Ball Carr, contrib. by Dong Jae Lee (PDF and EPub at Hawaii)
- The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectical Words in Blunden's Poems, etc. (Society for Pure English tract 5; 1921), by Brander Matthews and Robert Bridges (Gutenberg text)
- The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectical Words in Blunden's Poems, etc. (Society for Pure English tract 5; 1921), by Brander Matthews and Robert Bridges (Gutenberg text)
- A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Letters to 'Squire Pedant, in the East (second edition; Cincinnati: Applegate and Co., 1856), by Samuel K. Hoshour
- Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever Language, As Are At Present Used in the English Tongue, With Their Etymologies, Definition, &c. (London: Printed for D. Brown, et al., 1707), contrib. by Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)
- On Some Words Derived From Languages of the N. American Indians (extract from the Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1872), by J. Hammond Trumbull (multiple formats at archive.org)
- English Pattern Practices: Establishing the Patterns as Habits (revised edition of part of "An Intensive Course in English"; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1958), by University of Michigan English Language Institute, contrib. by Robert Lado and Charles C. Fries (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Analytic and Practical Grammar of the English Language (Raleigh, NC: N. C. Christian Advocate Pub. Co., 1864), by Peter Bullions and B. Craven
- An Analytical, Illustrative, And Constructive Grammar of the English Language (third edition; Raleigh, NC: W. L. Pomeroy, 1862), by Brantley York
- First Lessons in Composition (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by G. P. Quackenbos
- A Grammar of the English Language (Philadelphia: Sower, Barnes and Potts, 1866), by William Fewsmith and Edgar A. Singer
- Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition (revised edition, 1896), by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg (Gutenberg text)
- Mary's Grammar: Interspersed With Stories, and Intended for the Use of Children (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835), by Mrs. Marcet
- An Outline of English Speech-Craft (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1878), by William Barnes (Gutenberg text)
- Pinneo's Analytical Grammar of the English Language, Designed for Schools (revised and enlarged; New York: Clark, Austin, and Smith; Cincinnati: W. B. Smith and Co., c1850), by T. S. Pinneo
- A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases, and Sentences Are Classified According to Their Offices, and Their Various Relations to One Another Illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams (revised edition; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; et al., 1863), by S. W. Clark (multiple formats at Google)
- A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases, and Sentences Are Classified According to Their Offices, and Their Various Relations to One Another Illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams (40th edition, revised; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1868), by S. W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
- First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar and Co., 1863), by L. Branson
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