An Introduction To The Grammar Of Old English

Author : Michael Joseph Cummings
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English language
ISBN : 184553364X

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An Introduction to the Grammar of Old English by Michael Joseph Cummings Pdf

This book applies the techniques of systemic functional grammar to the description of the Old English historical dialect, 650-1150 CE. Systemic functional grammar is an approach to the description of language which distinguishes three separate functions in communication: language as representation, language as attitude, and language as the construction of text. Most applications of systemic functional theory have concentrated on modern English. This book is the first comprehensive description of the Old English dialect on systemic functional principles. The book begins with an outline of systemic functional grammatical theory. It then describes the Old English clause with a separate grammar for each of the three general functions it serves, the representational, the attitudinal, and the text-formative. Other areas covered include structures and functions within nominal, verbal and adverbial groups; relationships among clauses; embedding; and cohesion. The book is thus designed to suit the needs of systemic functional grammarians who are interested in the historical development of the English language. It is also designed for students of Old English who are looking for ways of explaining the grammatical system of Old English on terms other than those of traditional grammar.

Author : Peter S. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444354201

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Introduction to Old English by Peter S. Baker Pdf

Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a 'minitext' feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred's Preface to Gregory's Pastoral Care

Author : Jun Terasawa
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442693845

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Old English Metre by Jun Terasawa Pdf

Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the interaction between Old English metre and components such as word-formation, word-choice, and grammar. He also covers the metre-related problems of dating, authorship, and the distinction between prose and verse. Each chapter includes exercises and suggestions for further reading. Appendices provide possible answers to the exercises, tips for scanning half-lines, and brief definitions of metrical terms used. Examples in Old English are provided with literal modern English translations, with glosses added in the first three chapters to help beginners. The result is a comprehensive guide that makes important text-critical skills much more readily available to Old English specialists and beginners alike.

Author : Jeremy J. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521866774

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Old English by Jeremy J. Smith Pdf

A clear introduction to English between the 5th century and 1066, specifically designed for use on one-term course modules.

Author : Richard Hogg
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748654314

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Introduction to Old English by Richard Hogg Pdf

A student's introduction to the first centuries in the history of the English language. The first edition of "e;An Introduction to Old English"e; was written by Richard Hogg. The second edition has been revised by Rhona Alcorn. Combining a wide variety of short texts with a coherent and up-to-date assessment of the forms of language which remain as the foundation of English today, this introduction offers a unique study of Old English in context. It is designed for students unfamiliar with the earliest stages of the English language and provides a basis for further study of the history of the language to the present day. All the basic elements of Old English are covered, including nouns, adjectives, verbs, syntax, word order, vocabulary and sound values. Wherever possible comparisons are drawn between Old English and the present-day language, but also with other related languages such as Dutch, German and French. There are also chapters introducing Old English poetry and dialect variation, as well as a chapter looking at what happened to the language after the Norman Conquest.

Author : Murray McGillivray
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781460400944

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A Gentle Introduction to Old English by Murray McGillivray Pdf

This book is designed to ease the beginner into competent reading of Old English texts. It presents the essential points of Old English grammar and also includes a selection of short, relatively simple original language texts, glossed and annotated. Numerous practice exercises are also included throughout. A companion website includes additional interactive exercises, a fuller grammar, and further original language texts.

Author : Randolph Quirk,C. Wrenn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134948819

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An Old English Grammar by Randolph Quirk,C. Wrenn Pdf

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.

Author : Chris Mccully,Sharon Hilles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317876977

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The Earliest English by Chris Mccully,Sharon Hilles Pdf

The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215. Using non-technical language, the book covers basic terminology, the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to the emergence and development of OE, and the OE vocabulary that students studying this phase of the English language need to know. In eight carefully structured units, the authors show how the vocabulary of Old English contains many items familiar to us today; how its characteristic poetic form is based on a beautiful and intricate simplicity; how its patterns of word building and inflectional structure are paralleled in several present day languages and how and why the English language and its literature continued to change so that by the mid-12th century the English language looks more like the 'English' that we are familiar with in the 21st century. Features of the book include: the provision of accessible guides to some important 'problem topics' of classical OE stimulating cross-linguistic comparisons, e.g. the pronoun system of OE as compared with the pronoun system of present day Dutch cleverly laid out translation exercises, with structural help in the form of selective glossaries careful division into eight units, designed for both classroom use and self-study Written in a clear and accessible manner, The Earliest English provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolution of Old English language and literature, and will be an invaluable textbook for students of English Language and Linguistics.

Author : Robert E. Diamond
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0814315100

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Old English Grammar & Reader by Robert E. Diamond Pdf

This book makes learning Old English easy. It contains a simplified grammar, a minimum of phonology, well-chosen selections from Old English prose, and rich selections from Old English poetry. The texts are in regularized spelling, based on Early West Saxon, so that beginners will not have to wrestle with a shifting orthography. All texts come with facing-page literal translations. The prose selections include: "The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan"; "The Story of King Cynewulf of Wessex"; "The Wars of King Alfred against the Vikings"; and King Alfred's Preface to Cura Pastoralis. The poetry includes: Caedmon's "Hymn" from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Battle of Brunanburg; The Battle of Maldon; The Dream of Rood from the Vercelli Book; The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Wife's Lament, The Storm Riddles, The Panther, and The Whale from The Exeter Book.

Author : Murray McGillivray
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781460401514

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Old English Reader by Murray McGillivray Pdf

The texts in this reader include prose, metrical prose, and poetry, and represent a variety of genres (saints’ lives and metrical charms as well as heroic verse). Frequently taught canonical texts are balanced with interesting, lesser-known works. The glossary is at the back of the book, and the companion website includes texts with clickable glossing, as well as additional texts for study.

Author : Robert Dennis Fulk
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 086698514X

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An Introductory Grammar of Old English with an Anthology of Readings by Robert Dennis Fulk Pdf

"A guide to enable students to acquire sufficient command of Old English in one semester to allow them to read any text in the language, in either prose or verse"--

Author : Jonathan Evans
Publisher : Modern Language Association of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1603296530

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An Introduction to Old English by Jonathan Evans Pdf

This unique textbook teaches the Old English language, pairing grammatical instruction with Old English passages from historical and literary documents in chronological order and provides a summary of major events. Fifty lessons present translation passages from the Peterborough manuscript of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the Alfredian translation of the Universal History of Paulus Orosius, and other prose and poetic texts. Supplementary sections in each lesson provide additional lexical, historical, literary, and cultural information relevant to the translation passages, and the lessons are reinforced by brief exercises and advanced translation sentences. A section of twenty-six advanced readings features a generous assortment of poetry, including passages from Beowulf, The Wanderer, The Dream of the Rood, and The Wife's Lament. The book concludes with a thorough grammatical appendix as well as glossaries of linguistic terms, proper names, and Old English words.

Author : R.D. Fulk
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551118949

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An Introduction to Middle English by R.D. Fulk Pdf

An Introduction to Middle English combines an elementary grammar of the English language from about 1100 to about 1500 with a selection of texts for reading, ranging in date from 1154 to 1500. The grammar includes the fundamentals of orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, regional dialectology, and prosody. In the thirty-eight texts for reading are represented a wide range of Middle English dialects, and the commentary on each text includes, in addition to explanatory notes, extensive linguistic analysis. The book includes many useful figures and illustrations, including images of Middle English manuscripts as an aid to learning to decipher medieval handwriting and maps indicating the geographical extent of dialect features. This introduction to Middle English is based on the latest research, and it provides up-to-date bibliographical guidance to the study of the language.

Author : James Wilson Bright
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015002304056

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Bright's Old English Grammar & Reader by James Wilson Bright Pdf

Author : Orrin W. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134848997

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Old English and its Closest Relatives by Orrin W. Robinson Pdf

This accessible introductory reference source surveys the linguistic and cultural background of the earliest known Germanic languages and examines their similarities and differences. The Languages covered include:Gothic Old Norse Old SaxonOld English Old Low Franconian Old High German Written in a lively style, each chapter opens with a brief cultural history of the people who used the language, followed by selected authentic and translated texts and an examination of particular areas including grammar, pronunciation, lexis, dialect variation and borrowing, textual transmission, analogy and drift.