Author: Arthur AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Syntax of the Temporal Clause in Old English Prose
Author: Arthur AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
An Old English Grammar
Author: Randolph QuirkPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415045347
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A compact grammar for the student of English taking a descriptive approach. The introduction provides a general background and indicates the kinds of evidence on which frammatical description is based.This book is designed especially for the literary student of English, and provides a single compact grammar primarily concerned with Classical Old English, rather than the other Old English dialects. The book takes a descriptive approach and avoids assuming a knowledge of Germanic philology. The introduction provides a minimum background of knowledge and indicates the kinds of evidence on which the grammatical description is based.
Concessive Constructions in Old English Prose
Author: Josephine May BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Comparative Syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic
Author: Graeme DavisPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039102709
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Study of the syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic has for long been dominated by the impressions of early philologists. Their assertions that these languages were «free» in their word-order were for many years unchallenged. Only within the last two decades has it been demonstrated that the word-order of each shows regular patterns which approach the status of rules, and which may be precisely described. This book takes the subject one step further by offering a comparison of the syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic, the two best-preserved Old Germanic languages. Overwhelmingly the two languages show the same word-order patterns - as do the other Old Germanic languages, at least as far as can be determined from the fragments which have survived. It has long been recognised that Old English and Old Icelandic have a high proportion of common lexis and very similar morphology, yet the convention has been to emphasise the differences between the two as representatives respectively of the West and North sub-families of Germanic. The argument of this book is that the similar word-order of the two should instead lead us to stress the similarities between the two languages. Old English and Old Icelandic were sufficiently close to be mutually comprehensible. This thesis receives copious support from historical and literary texts. Our understanding of the Old Germanic world should be modified by the concept of a common «Northern Speech» which provided a common Germanic ethnic identity and a platform for the free flow of cultural ideas.
The Temporal Subjunctive in Old English
Author: Morgan CallawayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A Descriptive Syntax of the Peterborough Chronicle from 1122-1154
Author: David L. ShoresPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311080641X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George WatsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521200042
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Yale Studies in English
Author: The Old English Physiologus
Author: Albert Stanburrough CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bestiaries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth
Author: John MiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description