Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion

di Roger Lass (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 1994

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.

• Autore: Roger Lass
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 1994
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 324 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 515 gr.
• EAN: 9780521458481

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