Old English : A Historical Linguistic Companion Paperback / softback
by Roger Lass
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/02/1994
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- ISBN:9780521458481
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/02/1994
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- ISBN:9780521458481