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878946
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Lass, Roger.
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| Title & Author
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Old English : : a historical linguistic companion /\ Roger Lass.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1994.
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xx, 300 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0521430879
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: 052145848X
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: 9780521430876
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: 9780521458481
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-279) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Introduction and caveats: the notion 'Old English' -- pt. I. Historical prelude -- 1. Background and origins -- 2. Indo-European to Proto-Germanic to West Germanic -- pt. II. Old English Phonology -- 3. Evolution of Old English phonology: the major early sound changes -- 4. Suprasegmentals -- pt. III. Morphophonemic intermezzo -- 5. Ablaut, the laryngeals and the IE root -- pt. IV. Morphology, lexis and syntax -- 6. Inflectional morphology, I: nouns, pronouns, determiners and adjectives -- 7. Inflectional morphology, II: The verb -- 8. Vocabulary and word-formation -- 9. Topics in OE historical syntax: word-order and case -- pt. V. Historical postlude -- 10. The dissolution of Old English -- Index of Old English words and affixes.
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| Abstract
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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. -- Publisher description.
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English language-- Grammar-- History.
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English language-- Grammar-- Research.
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English language-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- Grammar.
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English language-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- Grammar.
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Anglais (Langue)-- ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais)-- Grammaire historique.
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Altenglisch
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Anglais (langue)-- 450-1100 (vieil anglais)-- Grammaire historique.
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English language-- Grammar.
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English language-- Old English-- Grammar.
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Geschichte
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Grammatik
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Historische Grammatik
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Língua inglesa (história)-- Ca. 400-1100.
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Linguística histórica.
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Oudengels.
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Altenglisch.
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| Dewey Classification
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429
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| LC Classification
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PE125.L37 1994
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18.04bcl
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HE 350rvk
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HE 400rvk
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