Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion

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Cambridge University Press, 25 févr. 1994 - 300 pages
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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. -- Publisher description.
 

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613 The major noun classes9
129
614 A note in retrospect
138
Pronouns and determiners
139
622 Definite articledemonstrative
142
623 Interrogative pronouns
145
63 The adjective
146
632 Comparison
149
Inflectional morphology II The verb
151

72 The strong verb
153
722 The strong verb classes VIVII
158
723 The strong past participle
161
724 Infinitive and present participle strong and weak
162
73 The weak verb
164
732 The weak verb classes
166
742 Athematic root verbs and to be24
170
75 Personnumbermood inflection25
172
present system
174
preterite
176
Vocabulary and wordformation
178
82 Loans in Old English
183
822 Scandinavian
186
823 Celtic and French
189
83 Wordformation
190
832 Compounding
194
833 Derivation
198
84 Names adverbs and numerals
205
842 Adverbs
207
843 Numerals
208
Topics in OE historical syntax wordorder and case
216
92 Basic constituent order
217
93 The clausal brace and verbsecond order
224
942 Historical persistence or natural semantics? IE remains in OE case syntax
234
Historical postlude
241
The dissolution of Old English
243
102 Monophthongization and merger
246
103 The new diphthongs
247
104 Quantity adjustment
249
105 Weak vowel collapse and the new morphology10
250
Glossary
253
References
272
Index of names
281
Subject index
283
Index of Old English words and affixes
290
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