Old English
Old English
A Historical Linguistic Companion
Roger Lass
February 1994
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Old English is a companion to Old English studies and to historical studies of early English in general. Professor Roger Lass makes accessible in a linguistically up-to-date and readable form the Indo-European and Germanic background to Old English, as well as what can be reconstructed about the resulting state of Old English itself. He bridges the gap between elementary Old English grammars and the major philological grammars and recent interpretations of Old English data.
- Unique modern linguistic introduction for students of Old English, with clear explanations of linguistics and an extensive glossary of terms
- Useful also for trained historical linguists wanting to know more about Old English in particular
- Looks back to origins and forward to development into Modern English, placing Old English in widest possible historical context
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February 1994Paperback
9780521458481
324 pages
229 × 152 × 18 mm
0.515kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Historical Prelude:
- 1. Background and origins
- 2. Indo-European to proto-Germanic to West Germanic
- Part II. Old English Phonology:
- 3. Evolution of old English phonology: the major early sound changes
- 4. Suprasegmentals
- Part III. Morphophonemic Intermezzo:
- 5. Ablaut, laryngeals, and the IE root
- Part IV. Morphology, Lexis and Syntax:
- 6. Inflectional morphology, I: Nouns, pronouns and adjectives
- 7. Inflectional Morphology, II: The Verb
- 8. Vocabulary and word-formation
- 9. Topics in old English historical syntax: word-order and case
- Part V. Historical Postlude:
- 10. The dissolution of old English
- Glossary
- References
- Index.
