Charles Jones

Grammatical Gender in English (eBook, ePUB)

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• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from the end of the Old English period, there was a considerable time period, of about three hundred years, during which there existed "echoes" of the gender classification of nouns.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317419389
• Artikelnr.: 43404395

Autorenporträt

Jones, Charles

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction: Grammatical Gender in West Saxon Old English 2.
The Tenth Century: The Late Old English gloss to the Lindesfarm Gospels 3.
The Tenth Century: The Late Old English gloss to the Durham Ritual 4. The
Twelfth Century: The Peterborough Chronical 5. The Thirteenth Century:
Lazamon's Brut and Vices and Virtues; References; Subject Index