A Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language
Author : Louis F. Klipstein
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
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Author : Louis F. Klipstein
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
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Author : Joseph Bosworth
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 1823
Category : Alphabet
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Author : Louis F. Klipstein
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
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Author : Francis Andrew March
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Orrin W. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134848994
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.
Author : Louis F. Klipstein
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
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Author : Fran Colman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191005185
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. From that culture survive thousands of names on coins, in manuscripts, on stone and other inscriptions. Names are important and their absence a stigma (Grendel's parents have no names); they may have particular functions in ritual and magic; they mark individuals, generally people but also beings with close human contact such as dogs, cats, birds, and horses; and they may provide indications of rank and gender. Dr Colman explores the place of names within the structure of Old English, their derivation, formation, and other linguistic behaviour, and compares them with the products of other Germanic (e.g., Present-day German) and non-Germanic (e.g., Ancient and Present-day Greek) naming systems. Old English personal names typically followed the Germanic system of elements based on common words like leof (adjective 'beloved') and wulf (noun 'wolf'), which give Leofa and Wulf, and often combined as in Wulfraed, (ræd noun, 'advice, counsel') or as in Leofing (with the diminutive suffix -ing). The author looks at the combinatorial and sequencing possibilities of these elements in name formation, and assesses the extent to which, in origin, names may be selected to express qualities manifested by, or expected in, an individual. She examines their different modes of inflection and the variable behaviour of names classified as masculine or feminine. The results of her wide-ranging investigation are provocative and stimulating.
Author : Joseph Bosworth
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 1823
Category : English language
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Author : Edward Johnston Vernon
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 1846
Category : English language
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Author : Joseph Bosworth
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 1823
Category : Alphabet
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