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Transitions Between the European Languages
Author(s) -
Furst Norbert
Publication year - 1942
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1942.tb01350.x
Subject(s) - romance languages , north germanic languages , germanic languages , linguistics , modern greek , foreign language , grammatical gender , language contact , history , classics , philosophy , german , noun
Author's summary.— There are no sharp borderlines between the European languages. There was interpenetration (1) between Greek and Latin in Antiquity, between Romance and Germanic stock at the time of the formation of the modern languages, and (2) between all our “foreign” languages during all their history.)