The Old Saxon Language: Grammar, Epic Narrative, Linguistic Interference

by Irmengard Rauch

This book, the first grammar of the Old Saxon language written in English, is self-contained with its inclusion of selected readings from the Heliand epic and appropriate comparative readings from two interference dialects, Old High German and Old English. It introduces the reader, regardless of degree of linguistic training, to the basic structure of a Germanic dialect. As a diachronic synchrony (variation and change within the Old Saxon time...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820418935
• ISBN13: 9780820418933
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 418 Pages