Product Description: This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or nick-) names, and how they were used in Anglo-Saxon England. It discusses their etymologies, semantics, and grammatical behaviour, and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon history and culture...read more

Product Description: This basic introduction to Old English is an essential guide for students with little or no linguistic knowledge. Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Beginning Old English focuses on the explanation and demonstration of how the language works, using accessible illustrations from simplified Old English texts and showing how many features of present-day English have their roots in this stage of the language...read more

This innovative introduction to the Old English language focuses on what students need to know in order to engage with Old English literary and historical texts. A pioneering introduction to Old English designed for a new generation of students. Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar. Opening chapters and 'Quick Start' sections cover the basics. 'Minitexts' give students practice in reading Old English. Includes two chapters on syntax and three on reading poetry. Anthologises fourteen readings, including 'The Wanderer', 'The Dream of the Rood' and 'Judith'. The accompanying 'Old English Aerobics' website features additional readings and exercises.

Product Description: This study of the Old English relative clause responds to Bruce Mitchell's "Old English Syntax" (1985). Whereas Mitchell's work covers the entire range of sentence structures in the language, this study provides new insight on a single type - the relative clause...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

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.