The Development of Old English

by Ann Taylor, Donald A. Ringe, Don Ringe

Book Overview

This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. Like Volume I, it is an internal history of the structure of English that combines traditional historical linguistics, modern syntactic theory, the study of languages in contact, and the variationist approach to language change.

The first part of the book considers the development of Northwest and West Germanic, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198787197
• ISBN13: 9780198787198
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"