UID:
almafu_9960119214602883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 300 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-03978-1
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0-511-62100-0
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-45848-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-43087-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Einführung
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621000
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