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Product Description: This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language encompasses three centuries of immense cultural change, from Caxton in the late Middle Ages to the American Declaration of Independence and the beginnings of Romanticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This is the first reference grammar of Old English to be published for more than a quarter of a century. The first of a two-part contribution to Old English phonology and morphology, it is designed to take account of major recent developments both in the field of Old English studies and in linguistic theory. In the field of Old English by far the greatest advance has been the Dictionary of Old English project in Toronto. This has enabled a much wider range of data to be checked and assessed than has previously been the case, and A Grammar of Old English has taken full advantage of this possibility. In order to assist the reader there are full cross-references to the Dictionary data, and items which are not in the Toronto Microfiche Concordance are specially indicated. In linguistic theory the most obvious developments have been associated with generative linguistics, but phonemic theory and related topics have also become so sophisticated that they can be used freely. A Grammar of Old English uses such theoretical developments fully, as well as providing material which could be crucial for future research both in diachronic and synchronic phonology and in historical sociolinguistics. A Grammar of Old English will become an essential tool not merely for students of Old English, but also for all those interested in the history of the English language and for historical linguists generally. Volume II: Morphology (0-631-13671-1) in preparation.

Product Description: The Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which is the major forum for the presentation of work in progress in the field of diachronic linguistics, took place at the University of Manchester in August 1995. The quality and breadth of the abstracts submitted for the general programme was such that four parallel sessions were needed throughout the conference...read more

Product Description: This accessible overview covers all the basic linguistic elements of Old English, including nouns, adjectives, verbs, syntax, word order, and vocabulary. Offering a unique study of Old English in context, it combines a wide variety of short texts with an up-to-date assessment of the forms of language that remain as the foundation of English today...read more

Product Description: This book is an introduction to the theory of metrical phonology, one of the most exciting developments in linguistic theory in the last decade. Metrical phonology has revolutionised our ideas and knowledge of such phenomena as stress patterning, and contributed to a better understanding of quite basic phonological issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)