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The Earliest English - An Introduction to Old English Language (Paperback)
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The Earliest English - An Introduction to Old English Language (Paperback)
Series: Learning about Language
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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.
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