I'm sorry. I picked the wrong reference list in the webpage.
This is it:
Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue (1990); A. B. Cook, Introduction to
the English Language, Structure and History (1969); Einar Haugen, The
Scandinavian Languages (1976); Otto Jesperson, Language, Its Nature,
Development and Origin (1954); Winifred P. Lehmann, A Reader in
Ninrteenth Century Historical Indo-European Linguistics (1962) and
Historical Linguistics (1962); W. B. Lockwood, An Informal History
of the German Language, with Chapters on Dutch and Afrikaans, Frisian
and Yiddish (1965); Antoine Meillet, General Characteristics of the
Germanic Languages, trans. by William Dismukes (1970); William G.
Moulton, The Sounds of English and German (1962); Siegfried Muller,
The World's Living Languages (1964); Hans F. Nielsen, The Germanic
Languages. rev. ed. (1989); Mario Pei, The Story of English (1967)
and The World's Chief Languages (1967); R. K. Seymour, A Bibliography
of Word Formation in the Germanic Languages (1968); A. L. Streadbeck,
A Short Introduction to Germanic Linguistics (1966); John T.
Waterman, A History of the German Language (1966); Uriel and Beatrice
Weinrich, Yiddish Language and Folklore: A Selective Bibliography
(1959); J. M. Williams, Origins of the English Language (1975)
Regards
Anders
>
> Then I read on a webpage that
> 90% of the gothic vocabulary is of IE origin. The webpage appeared
to
> be signend by Arval L. Streadbeck , where it also was stated
> that "Only about 25 percent of the vocabulary of modern Germanic
> languages can be traced directly back through West and North
Germanic
> to Indo-European."
>
>
> Another webpage repeated tis information and gave these sources:
> See A. L. Streadbeck, A Short Introduction to Germanic Linguistics
> (1966); Antoine Meillet, General Characteristics of the Germanic
> Languages (tr. 1970); T. L. Markey, Germanic and Its Dialects
(1977);
> H. F. Nielsen, The Germanic Languages (rev. ed. 1989)
> Does anyone know in which of these the above information is written?
>
> Is it somewhat accurate?
>
> I will of corse try to get hold of these books myself in some way.
>
> Best wishes
> Anders