Product Description: Book by Ogura, Michiko

Product Description: Old and Middle English Texts with Accompanying Textual and Linguistic Apparatus contains significant selections from medieval literature starting with an excerpt from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of 449 and ending with an excerpt from Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, 1485...read more

This book is an introduction to Old English language and literature, set within the context of Anglo-Saxon history and society. Parts I, II, and V provide the reader with an understanding of, and, in particular, the ability to read, Old English. Part III presents a wide-ranging account of Anglo-Saxon England, and Part IV a representative selection of 51 prose and verse texts, each introduced and placed in context. The book is illustrated with maps, line-drawings and photographs, and concludes with a glossary tailored to meet the needs of those encountering Old English for the first time. The author's aim is to allow the reader both to understand Anglo-Saxon society and to experience the richness of its literature and culture.

Product Description: From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English brings together eleven papers on aspects of English language and literature from the eighth to the thirteenth century, written in honor of E.G. Stanley, the recently retired Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford...read more

Book by Burnley, David

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Product Description: This Catalogueis a state-of-knowledge list of the English written between ca. 1150 and 1300, whether later versions of Old English texts or original early Middle English. With over 500 entries relating to manuscripts containing writing in English, it describes in detail literary material, both prose and verse, documentary texts, and glosses...read more

Product Description: To celebrate the 65th birthday of the German medievalist Helmut Gneuss, 23 scholars from Great Britain, Germany, the USA, Canada and Belgium have contributed to this festschrift on Anglo-Saxon culture and the Old English language, covering the honorand's wide range of interests.

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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 historical lineage of Standard English has been a locus of scholarly research for over a century. And although the strong influence of the East Midlands dialect on Standard English has never been questioned, little agreement has been reached on how this dialect shaped the standardized language...read more

Product Description: "Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts" was the theme of the fifth York Manuscripts Conference, held at the University of York in July 1989, which celebrated the publication of "A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English", a major research tool for English medievalists...read more

Product Description: Arnovick examines the evolution of the English verbal system in a period of significant transformation by tracing the development in Old and Middle English of will and shall future constructions. Through pragmatic analysis of speech acts, she demonstrates how speakers employed both modal and temporal auxiliaries to communicate attitudes about the future...read more

Product Description: This work supplements the author's two-volume "Old English Syntax" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985). It contains what is intended to be a bibliography complete to the end of 1984, of books, doctoral dissertations, articles, notes and reviews, on the syntax of Old English, with cross-references and with comments on items other than reviews; a subject index thereto; and the index of authors and reviewers which is (by design) missing in "Old English Syntax" but which gives references to both books...read more