Hans Frede Nielsen 
Germanic Languages [EPUB ebook] 
Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations

A revised and translated version of De germanske sprog. Baggrund og gruppe’ring (Odense University Press, 1979), which has been out of print for several years The book is especially concerned with the grouping of the Germanic languages: with the research history of this much-debated question and with a discussion of the methods applied to past attempts and indeed applicable to future research in the field.