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Author : Leonard Neidorf
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1843844389
Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for understanding Old English texts.
Author : Chris Mccully
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317876970
The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215. Using non-technical language, the book covers basic terminology, the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to the emergence and development of OE, and the OE vocabulary that students studying this phase of the English language need to know. In eight carefully structured units, the authors show how the vocabulary of Old English contains many items familiar to us today; how its characteristic poetic form is based on a beautiful and intricate simplicity; how its patterns of word building and inflectional structure are paralleled in several present day languages and how and why the English language and its literature continued to change so that by the mid-12th century the English language looks more like the 'English' that we are familiar with in the 21st century. Features of the book include: the provision of accessible guides to some important 'problem topics' of classical OE stimulating cross-linguistic comparisons, e.g. the pronoun system of OE as compared with the pronoun system of present day Dutch cleverly laid out translation exercises, with structural help in the form of selective glossaries careful division into eight units, designed for both classroom use and self-study Written in a clear and accessible manner, The Earliest English provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolution of Old English language and literature, and will be an invaluable textbook for students of English Language and Linguistics.
Author : Roger Lass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 1994-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521458481
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.
Author : Stephen Pollington
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
This short book does not aim to provide a grammar of Old English. Rather it suggests why the language is so fun to learn, and guides the beginner through some of the resources available from the Early Medieval world. The types of text surviving are discussed and a few guided exercises show how reading these is really no more difficult than studying Latin.
Author : Jeremy J. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521866774
A clear introduction to English between the 5th century and 1066, specifically designed for use on one-term course modules.
Author : Orrin W. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134848994
This accessible introductory reference source surveys the linguistic and cultural background of the earliest known Germanic languages and examines their similarities and differences. The Languages covered include:Gothic Old Norse Old SaxonOld English Old Low Franconian Old High German Written in a lively style, each chapter opens with a brief cultural history of the people who used the language, followed by selected authentic and translated texts and an examination of particular areas including grammar, pronunciation, lexis, dialect variation and borrowing, textual transmission, analogy and drift.
Author : Peter S. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 047065984X
Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a “minitext” feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred’s Preface to Gregory’s Pastoral Care
Author : Jonathan Evans
Publisher : Introductions to Older Languag
Page : pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2018-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603293112
Textbook for learning Old English (Anglo-Saxon) with original texts from annals arranged in chronological order to facilitate understanding Anglo-Saxon political, literary, cultural, and religious history. Includes texts from poetry and other genres. Texts are accompanied by historical, literary, etymological, and lexical notes. Includes a full grammar of Old English.
Author : R. D. Fulk
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1512802220
In A History of Old English Meter, R. D. Fulk offers a wide-ranging reference on Anglo-Saxon meter. Fulk examines the evidence for chronological and regional variation in the meter of Old English verse, studying such linguistic variables as the treatment of West Germanic parasite vowels, contracted vowels, and short syllables under secondary and tertiary stress, as well as a variety of supposed dialect features. Fulk's study of such variables points the way to a revised understanding of the role of syllable length in the construction of early Germanic meters and furnishes criteria for distinguishing dialectal from poetic features in the language of the major Old English poetic codices. On this basis, it is possible to draw conclusions about the probable dialect origins of much verse, to delineate the characteristics of at least four discrete periods in the development of Old English meter, and with some probability to assign to them many of the longer poems, such as Genesis A, Beowulf, and the works of Cynewulf. A History of Old English Meter will be of interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon, historians of the English language, Germanic philologists, and historical linguists.
Author : Malcolm Godden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 052119332X
This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.