Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion
- ISBN-10
- 1316582493
- ISBN-13
- 9781316582497
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-02-25
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Roger Lass
Description
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.
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