Author: Ira King HendricksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
A Historical Study of the Grammatical Nomenclature Pertaining to the English Verb
Author: Ira King HendricksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Fran ColmanPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191005185
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or nick-) names, and how they were used in Anglo-Saxon England. It discusses their etymologies, semantics, and grammatical behaviour, and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon history and culture. From that culture survive thousands of names on coins, in manuscripts, on stone and other inscriptions. Names are important and their absence a stigma (Grendel's parents have no names); they may have particular functions in ritual and magic; they mark individuals, generally people but also beings with close human contact such as dogs, cats, birds, and horses; and they may provide indications of rank and gender. Dr Colman explores the place of names within the structure of Old English, their derivation, formation, and other linguistic behaviour, and compares them with the products of other Germanic (e.g., Present-day German) and non-Germanic (e.g., Ancient and Present-day Greek) naming systems. Old English personal names typically followed the Germanic system of elements based on common words like leof (adjective 'beloved') and wulf (noun 'wolf'), which give Leofa and Wulf, and often combined as in Wulfraed, (ræd noun, 'advice, counsel') or as in Leofing (with the diminutive suffix -ing). The author looks at the combinatorial and sequencing possibilities of these elements in name formation, and assesses the extent to which, in origin, names may be selected to express qualities manifested by, or expected in, an individual. She examines their different modes of inflection and the variable behaviour of names classified as masculine or feminine. The results of her wide-ranging investigation are provocative and stimulating.
Abstracts of Dissertations for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Education
Author: Stanford UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Grammar of English Grammars
Author: Goold BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Abstracts of Dissertations for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Education, with the Titles of Theses Accepted for the Degrees of Engineer, Master of Arts, and Master of Science
Author: Stanford UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
Book Description
The Grammar of English Grammars, with an Introduction, Historical and Critical
Author: Goold BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Author: The Classical World
Author: A Historical Study of the Concept of Case in English Grammar ...
Author: Wallace Joseph VickersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Language and literature
Author: Xerox University MicrofilmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description