Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion - Softcover

Lass, Roger

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Synopsis

Old English is a companion to Old English studies and to historical studies of early English in general. 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. He bridges the gap between elementary Old English grammars and the major philological grammars and recent interpretations of Old English data.

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Bridging the gap between elementary Old English grammars and the major philological grammars and recent interpretations of Old English data, this work renders accessible the Indo-European and Germanic background to Old English in a linguistically up-to-date and readable form.

About the Author

Roger Lass, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Honorary Research Associate in English at the University of Cape Town, is a Collaborating Scholar of the Institute for Historical Dialectology at the University of Edinburgh, where he is currently working on the Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English.

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ISBN 10:  0521430879 ISBN 13:  9780521430876
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994
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