Richard M. Hogg

Grammar of Old English V1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1992, A Grammar of Old English, Volume 1: Phonology was a landmark publication that in the intervening years has not been surpassed in its depth of scholarship and usefulness to the field. With the 2011 posthumous publication of Richard M. Hogg's Volume 2: Morphology , Volume 1 is again in print, now in paperback, so that scholars can own this complete work.
Takes account of major developments both in the field of Old English studies and in linguistic theory
Takes full advantage of the Dictionary of Old English project at Toronto, and includes full cross-references to the DOE data
Fully utilizes work in phonemic and generative theory and related topics
Provides material crucial for future research both in diachronic and synchronic phonology and in historical sociolinguistics

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781444339338
• ISBN-10: 1444339338
• Artikelnr.: 32837598

Autorenporträt

The late Richard M. Hogg was Professor of English Language at the University of Manchester. He was the General Editor of the Cambridge History of the English Language and author, with C. B. McCully, of Metrical Phonology: A Coursebook (1987), and editor, with David Denison, of A History of the English Language (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

List of abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Orthography and phonology

3. The vowels in Germanic

4. The consonants in Germanic

5. Old English vowels

6. Unstressed vowels

7. Old English consonants

References

Word index