Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 300 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780511621000
Content:
Old English is a companion to Old English studies and to historical studies of early English in general. It is also an introduction to Indo-European studies in the particular sense in which they underpin the history of English. 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. His book is a bridge between the more elementary Old English grammars and the major philological grammars and recent interpretations of the Old English data.Old English assumes a basic knowledge of phonetics and phonology, the elements of syntactic and morphological theory, and an introduction to historical linguistics. An extensive glossary gives definitions of the major technical terms used.
Content:
Introduction and caveats: the notion 'Old English' -- pt. I. Historical prelude -- 1. Background and origins -- 2. Indo-European to Proto-Germanic to West Germanic -- pt. II. Old English Phonology -- 3. Evolution of Old English phonology: the major early sound changes -- 4. Suprasegmentals -- pt. III. Morphophonemic intermezzo -- 5. Ablaut, the laryngeals and the IE root -- pt. IV. Morphology, lexis and syntax -- 6. Inflectional morphology, I: nouns, pronouns, determiners and adjectives -- 7. Inflectional morphology, II: The verb -- 8. Vocabulary and word-formation -- 9. Topics in OE historical syntax: word-order and case -- pt. V. Historical postlude -- 10. The dissolution of Old English -- Index of Old English words and affixes
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521430876
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521458481
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lass, Roger, 1937 - Old English Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 1994 ISBN 0521430879
Additional Edition:
ISBN 052145848X
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Altenglisch
;
Historische Grammatik
;
Grammatik
;
Einführung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511621000
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