A Grammar of Old English, Volume 2 Morphology

by Hogg, Richard M.; Fulk, R. D.

• ISBN13: 9780631136712
• ISBN10: 0631136711
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Grammar of Old English, Volume II: Morphology incorporates insights derived from theoretical and technological advances to complete Richard M. Hogg's two-volume analysis of the sounds and grammatical forms of the Old English language. With A Grammar of Old English, Volume I: Phonology, completes Richard Hogg's two-volume analysis of the sounds and grammatical forms of the Old English language Incorporates insights derived from the latest theoretical and technological advances, which post-date most Old English grammars Utilizes the databases of the Toronto Dictionary of Old English project - a digital corpus comprising at least one copy of each text surviving in Old English Features separation of diachronic and synchronic considerations in the sometimes complicated analysis of Old English noun morphology Includes extensive bibliographical coverage of Old English morphology

Author Biography

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).

R. D. Fulk is Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University. His books include The Origins of Indo-European Quantitative Ablaut (1986), A History of Old English Meter (1992), and as editor, with Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, 4th Edition (2008).

Table of Contents

Preface List of Abbreviations

Preliminaries

Nouns: Stem Nouns

Early Backgrounds

Vocalic Stems

Consonantal Stems

Nouns: Declensions

Introduction

as-declension

a-declension

an-declension

Minor Declensions

Gender and Declension

Nominal compounding

Adjectives, Adverbs and Numerals

Introduction

Indefinite (strong) adjectives

Definite (weak) adjectives

Comparison of Adjectives

Adverbs

Numerals

Pronouns

Introduction

Demonstrative pronouns

The anaphoric pronoun

Interrogative pronouns

Personal pronouns

Indefinite pronouns

Other pronominal types

Verbs

Early background

Strong verbs

Weak verbs

Preterite-present verbs

Athematic verbs

References

Word Index

Subject Index

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