An Old English Grammar (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Conklin, Edwin Grant

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440089736 ISBN 13 : 9781440089732

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how Old English grammar shapes meaning, from adjectives to adverbs, with clear, practical examples.

This edition surveys how nouns, verbs, and modifiers behave in classic texts. It highlights standard declensions, variations across dialects, and the patterns scholars use to read complex passages. The material stays focused on concrete forms and real-language usage, helping readers recognize rules in action.

• How adjectives decline across cases, genders, and numbers, with examples of strong and weak forms.


• How adverbs are formed from adjectives, and how endings like -ung-, -ing-, -eng-, and -ling- work in practice.


• Ways adverbs can be built from nouns and pronouns, and how this affects sentence flow.


• How cardinal numerals and other key words decline and interact with surrounding words.

Ideal for readers of Old English grammar and scholars seeking concrete, decode-able guidance on early language structure.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Series of Brief Grammars of the Germanic Dialects invited me to prepare theO ld English member of the series. At that time the pressure of other duties did not justify me in promising him more than a revision of an earlier set of lectures onO ld English grammar, adapted to conform to the general plan. The brief sketch which follows, therefore, makes no pretension to be anything more than such a revision, although much has been added in the process of re-copying which was foreign to the original draft. Hitherto, Old English grammars have virtually been founded Upon the language of the poetical texts. This is to be deplored, especially when we consider that the manuscripts in which they are contained are uniformly late ;that the texts themselves were composed at an earlier period, and frequently in another dialect; and that in our present versions ancient forms are almost hopelessly jumbled with more, modern ones, and specimens of the most widely separated dialects are occasionally united in the same composition. .I nthe present treatise, on the other hand, the language of the older prose writings has, to a greater extent than heretofore, been chosen as the basis of grammatical investigation, since it is safe to assume that they represent in some measure a single dialect. Besides the characterization of theW estS axon, which is everywhere made the most prominent, an attempt has also been made to give, though in the most concise terms, the chief variations of the other dialects.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440089736
• ISBN 13: 9781440089732
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
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