Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion

by Roger Lass

Book Overview

Old English is a companion to Old English studies and to historical studies of early English in general. Professor Roger Lass makes accessible in a linguistically up-to-date and readable form the Indo-European and Germanic background to Old English, as well as what can be reconstructed about the resulting state of Old English itself. He bridges the gap between elementary Old English grammars and the major philological grammars and recent interpretations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052145848X
• ISBN13: 9780521458481
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"