An Introduction to Romance-Germanic Philology
I.V.Panferova, PhD
2020
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LECTURE 8. THE MAIN TENDENCIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
ROMANCE AND GERMAN LANGUAGES
Summary of the lecture. The survey of linguistic peculiarities of changes of the Romance-
Germanic Languages can show how the languages improved and acquired their common and
particular features of their development. Some important stages of developments must have
occurred during as a gradual historical process while some degree of unity still existed among
the various peculiarities in the functionality of the Romance-Germanic languages. Certain other
changes shared by the Romance and Germanic languages might have postdated the linguistic
separation and the further distinct development their language forms at a later date.