The Development of Old English

Don Ringe (Kahn Term Professor in Linguistics, Kahn Term Professor in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania),Ann Taylor (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of York)

The Development of Old English
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
9 March 2017
Pages
630
ISBN
9780198787198

The Development of Old English

Don Ringe (Kahn Term Professor in Linguistics, Kahn Term Professor in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania),Ann Taylor (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of York)

This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. Like Volume I, it is an internal history of the structure of English that combines traditional historical linguistics, modern syntactic theory, the study of languages in contact, and the variationist approach to language change.The first part of the book considers the development of Northwest and West Germanic, and the northern dialects of the latter, with particular reference to phonological and morphological phenomena. Later chapters present a detailed account of changes in the Old English sound system, inflectional system, and syntax. The book aims to make the findings of traditional historical linguistics accessible to scholars and students in other subdisciplines, and also to adopt approaches from contemporary theoretical linguistics in such a way that they are accessible to a wide range of historical linguists.

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