Title: Old English
Subtitle: a historical linguistic companion
First published: 1994
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. -- Publisher description.
Subjects: Grammar, English language, English language, old english, ca. 450-1100, grammar, English language, old english, ca. 450-1100, Historical Grammar, History, Research
Time periods: Old English, ca. 450-1100
LC classification: PE125 .L37 1994