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A Guide to Old English

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mitchell, Bruce
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A GUIDE TO OLD ENGLISH
  • Contents
  • Foreword to the Eighth Edition
  • Map of Anglo-Saxon England
  • Abbreviations and Symbols
  • How to Use this Guide
  • Part One
  • 1 Preliminary Remarks on the Language
  • 2 Orthography and Pronunciation
  • I ORTHOGRAPHY
  • I I STRESS
  • I I I VOWELS
  • IV DIPHTHONGS
  • V CONSONANTS
  • 3 Inflexions
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I PRONOUNS
  • I I NOUNS AND SOUND-CHANGES RELEVANT TO THEM
  • Some Technical Terms
  • Strong Nouns like st¡n (masc.) and scip (neut.)
  • Masculine and Neuter Nouns in -e
  • Strong Feminine Nouns
  • i-Mutation
  • Nouns Affected by i-Mutation
  • U-Nouns
  • I I I ADJECTIVES
  • Introduction
  • Weak Declension
  • Strong Declension
  • Stem Changes in Adjectives
  • Comparison of Adjectives
  • IV OBSERVATIONS ON NOUN, ADJECTIVE,AND PRONOUN DECLENSIONS
  • V NUMERALS
  • VI STRONG VERBS AND SOUND-CHANGESRELEVANT TO THEM
  • Introduction
  • Principal Parts of the Strong Verbs
  • Breaking
  • Influence of Initial g, sc, c
  • Influence of Nasals
  • Summary of the Strong Verbs of Class III
  • The Effects of Sound-Changes on Other Strong Verbs
  • Strong Verbs of Class VII
  • Grimm's Law and Verner's Law
  • Conjugation of the Strong Verb
  • VII WEAK VERBS AND SOUND-CHANGESRELEVANT TO THEM
  • Introduction
  • Class I
  • Class 2
  • Class 3
  • VIII ANOMALOUS VERBS
  • Beon
  • Don and gan
  • Willan
  • Preterite-Present Verbs
  • IX IS A VERB STRONG OR WEAK? TO WHICH CLASSDOES IT BELONG?
  • X ADVERBS
  • Formation
  • Comparison
  • 4 Word Formation
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I COMPOUNDING
  • I I THE ADDITION OF AFFIXES
  • Prefixes
  • Suffixes
  • 5 Syntax
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I WORD-ORDER1
  • I I SENTENCE STRUCTURE
  • Recapitulation and Anticipation
  • The Splitting of Heavy Groups
  • Correlation
  • I I I NOUN CLAUSES
  • Introduction
  • Dependent Statements and Desires
  • Dependent Questions
  • The Accusative and Infinitive
  • IV ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
  • Definite Adjective Clauses
  • Indefinite Adjective Clauses
  • Mood
  • V ADVERB CLAUSES
  • Introduction
  • Non-Prepositional Conjunctions
  • Prepositional Conjunctions
  • An Exercise in Analysis
  • Clauses of Place
  • Clauses of Time
  • Clauses of Purpose and Result
  • Causal Clauses
  • Clauses of Comparison
  • Clauses of Concession
  • Clauses of Condition
  • Adverb Clauses Expressing Other Relationships
  • Other Ways of Expressing Adverbial Relationships
  • VI PARATAXIS
  • Introduction
  • List of Conjunctions and Adverbs Commonly Used
  • Parataxis without Conjunctions
  • Some Special Idioms
  • V I I CONCORD
  • 1. Nouns, Pronouns and their Modifiers
  • 2. Pronouns and their Antecedents
  • 3. Subject and Verb
  • V I I I THE USES OF THE CASES
  • Nominative
  • Accusative
  • Genitive
  • Dative
  • Instrumental
  • IX ARTICLES, PRONOUNS, AND NUMERALS
  • Articles and Pronouns
  • Numerals
  • X VERBS
  • The Uses of the Present and Preterite Tenses
  • The Resolved Tenses
  • Introduction
  • The Verb 'to have' as an Auxiliary
  • The Verb 'to be' as an Auxiliary of Tense