Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion
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Roger Lass (Author)
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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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- Contributor: Roger Lass
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9780521458481
- Number of Pages: 324
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x18mm
- Packaged Weight: 515
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 1994-02-25
- Binding: Paperback / softback
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