Old English: A Historical Linguistic CompanionOld 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. |
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Contents
1 Background and origins | 9 |
12 IndoEuropean and Germanic | 10 |
13 The attestation of Germanic | 12 |
14 Classification of the Germanic languages | 13 |
IndoEuropean to ProtoGermanic to West Germanic1 | 17 |
22 Formation of the PGmc vowel system | 18 |
Grimms Law | 19 |
24 The Accent Shift and Verners Law | 21 |
613 The major noun classes9 | 129 |
614 A note in retrospect | 138 |
Pronouns and determiners | 139 |
622 Definite articledemonstrative | 142 |
623 Interrogative pronouns | 145 |
63 The adjective | 146 |
632 Comparison | 149 |
Inflectional morphology II The verb | 151 |
PGmc phonological systems | 24 |
27 Features of Northwest Germanic | 25 |
28 West Germanic | 27 |
Old English phonology | 31 |
the major early sound changes1 | 33 |
32 West Germanic Gemination2 | 34 |
33 Prenasal vowels in Ingvaeonic and AngloFrisian | 38 |
and cti in Ingvaeonic | 39 |
lol opposition9 | 41 |
Breaking and related processes13 | 45 |
362 Breaking Retraction and Diphthong Height Harmony | 48 |
363 Back umlaut1 | 51 |
364 Morphophonemic effects of diphthongization | 52 |
37 Palatalization19 | 53 |
38 umlaut22 | 59 |
382 Iumlaut in detail | 64 |
383 Iumlaut and Old English morphology | 70 |
voicing devoicing hardening and deletion 391 OElf 6 s | 71 |
392 The velars | 74 |
393 Fricative hardening and its consequences | 76 |
Palatal Diphthongization | 78 |
Suprasegmentals | 83 |
42 Germanic stress and Old English stress | 84 |
422 The Germanic Stress Rule4 | 87 |
423 Old English stress | 91 |
43 Major developments in weak syllables19 | 95 |
432 High vowel deletion and medial syncope22 | 98 |
Morphophonemic intermezzo | 103 |
Ablaut the laryngeals and the IE root | 105 |
52 The conditioning of ablaut | 107 |
irregular ablaut regularized and a new look for IE rootstructure | 109 |
54 Roots and extensions13 | 114 |
55 Zerograde revisited | 116 |
consonantal alternations | 118 |
Morphology lexis and syntax | 121 |
Inflectional morphology I Nouns pronouns determiners and adjectives | 123 |
gender number case | 126 |
72 The strong verb | 153 |
722 The strong verb classes VIVII | 158 |
723 The strong past participle | 161 |
724 Infinitive and present participle strong and weak | 162 |
73 The weak verb | 164 |
732 The weak verb classes | 166 |
742 Athematic root verbs and to be24 | 170 |
75 Personnumbermood inflection25 | 172 |
present system | 174 |
preterite | 176 |
Vocabulary and wordformation | 178 |
82 Loans in Old English | 183 |
822 Scandinavian | 186 |
823 Celtic and French | 189 |
83 Wordformation | 190 |
832 Compounding | 194 |
833 Derivation | 198 |
84 Names adverbs and numerals | 205 |
842 Adverbs | 207 |
843 Numerals | 208 |
Topics in OE historical syntax wordorder and case | 216 |
92 Basic constituent order | 217 |
93 The clausal brace and verbsecond order | 224 |
942 Historical persistence or natural semantics? IE remains in OE case syntax | 234 |
Historical postlude | 241 |
The dissolution of Old English | 243 |
102 Monophthongization and merger | 246 |
103 The new diphthongs | 247 |
104 Quantity adjustment | 249 |
105 Weak vowel collapse and the new morphology10 | 250 |
Glossary | 253 |
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