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Title

An introduction to Old English / Jonathan Evans.

Author

Evans, Jonathan D. (Jonathan Duane), 1954-

Publication

• New York, New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xxxii, 770 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"This unique textbook teaches the Old English language, pairing grammatical instruction with historical and literary documents in chronological order and providing lexical, historical, literary, and cultural information relevant to translation passages. Brief exercises and advanced translation sentences reinforce the lessons. A section of advanced readings is followed by a grammatical appendix and glossaries"--

Series Statement

Introduction to older languages, 1099-0313; 5

Subject

• 450-1100
• English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Grammar
• English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Readers
• English language > Old English
• English language > Old English > Grammar

Genre/Form

Readers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

LESSONS -- Historical Overview: Prehistoric Britain to the Roman Occupation -- Lesson 1 Anomalous Verb Beon/Wesan t̀o Be'; Personal Pronouns -- Lesson 2 n-Stem Nouns; Demonstrative Pronounces -- Lesson 3 Definite Articles; Relative Particle; Passive Voice -- Lesson 4 a-Stem Nouns -- Lesson 5 d-Stem Nouns -- Lesson 6 Class I Weak Verbs -- Lesson 7 u-Stem Nouns -- Historical Overview: The Fifth Century -- Lesson 8 Class II Weak Verbs -- Lesson 9 i-Stem Nouns; Class I Weak Verbs in -rian -- Lesson 10 Class III Weak Verbs -- Lesson 11 Class 1 Strong Verbs -- Historical Overview: The Sixth Century -- Lesson 12 Class 2 Strong Verbs -- Lesson 13 Class 3 Strong Verbs -- Historical Overview: The Seventh Century -- Lesson 14 Class 4 Strong Verbs -- Lesson 15 Class 5 Strong Verbs -- Lesson 16 Class 6 Strong Verbs -- Lesson 17 Class 7 Strong Verbs -- Lesson 18 Anomalous Verbs Don, Gdn, Willan -- Historical Overview: The Eighth Century -- Lesson 19 Subjunctive Verb Forms -- Lesson 20 Preterite-Present Verbs -- Historical Overview: The Ninth Century -- Lesson 21 Interrogative Pronouns in hw- -- Lesson 22 Strong and Weak Adjectives -- Lesson 23 Neuter Nouns in *-es/*-os -- Lesson 24 Cardinal Numbers; Ordinal Numbers -- Lesson 25 Prefixes ge-, for- -- Lesson 26 r-Stem Nouns -- Lesson 27 p-Stem Nouns -- Lesson 28 Possessive Pronouns; Dual Pronouns -- Lesson 29 Weak-Verb Preterites without i-Mutation -- Lesson 30 Root Nouns -- Historical Overview: The Tenth Century -- Lesson 31 Conjunctions, Adverbs, and Prepositions -- Lesson 32 Poetic Meter and Alliteration -- Lesson 33 Poetic Diction -- Lesson 34 Kennings and Figurative Epithets -- Lesson 35 Agent Nouns of the nd- Stem Class -- Lesson 36 Possessive Pronouns -- Lesson 37 Nouns in -ing/-ung -- Historical Overview: The Eleventh Century -- Lesson 38 Syncopation and Assimilation -- Lesson 39 Indefinite Pronouns -- Lesson 40 Vocabulary and Word-Formation -- Lesson 41 Word-Formation: Prefixes -- Lesson 42 Word-Formation: Suffixes -- Lesson 43 Word-Formation: Compounding -- Lesson 44 Word-Formation: Semantic Shift and Conversion -- Lesson 45 Word-Formation: Borrowing -- Historical Overview: Postconquest Annals and the Twelfth Century -- Lesson 46 Word Order and Simple Sentences -- Lesson 47 Phrases -- Lesson 48 Independent and Dependent Clauses; Interjections -- Lesson 49 Subordinate and Relative Clauses -- Lesson 50 Complex Sentences -- ADVANCED READINGS -- I. Bede: A Description of Britain -- II. Bede: The Anglo-Saxon Migration -- III. Bede: Hie Conversion of Edwin -- IV. Bede: The Poet Caedmon -- V. The Peterborough Chronicle: Cynewulf and Cyneheard (755) -- VI. The Treaty of Wedmore -- VII. The Peterborough Chronicle: Restoration of Peterborough Abbey (963) -- VIII. The Parker Chronicle: Annal 1001 -- IX. The Peterborough Chronicle: Fire in Peterborough (1116) -- X. The Peterborough Chronicle: Mutilation of the Moneyers (1125) -- XI. The Peterborough Chronicle: Abbot Henry of Poitou and the Wild Hunt (1127) -- XII. The Alfredian Preface to the Cura pastoralis -- XIII. The Alfredian Preface to the Consolatione philosophiae: On the Tools of Statecraft -- XTV. The Alfredian Preface to Augustine's Soliloquium: On the Tools of Learning -- XV. Æfric's Preface to the Grammar -- XVI. Maxims II -- XVII. From Beowulf: The Coast Guardian's Challenge and Beowulf's Reply -- XVIII. From Beowulf: The Finnsburg Digression: Massacre in Frisia -- XIX. From Beowulf: Wealhtheow's Speeches -- XX. From Judith: The Decapitation of Holofernes -- XXI. The Wanderer -- XXII. The Wife's Lament -- XXIII. The Battle of Brunanburh -- XXIV. The Battle of Maldon -- XXV. The Dream of the Rood -- XXVI. The Ruin -- GRAMMATICAL APPENDIX -- A. Manuscripts, Orthography, and Spelling -- A.1. Old English Orthography -- A.2. The Old English Alphabet -- A.3. Spelling Equivalents for Old English Vowels -- B. Pronunciation -- B.1. Consonants -- B.2. Semivowels -- B.3. Vowels -- B.4. Diphthongs -- B.5. Accent -- C. Nouns -- C.1. a-Stem Nouns: Masculine and Neuter -- C.2. o-Stem Nouns: Feminine -- C.3. i-Stem Nouns -- C.4. u-Stem Nouns -- C.5. r-Stem Nouns -- C.6. nd-Stem Nouns -- C.7. n-Stem Nouns: Weak Nouns -- C.8. *-es/*-os- Stem Nouns -- C.9. Root Nouns -- C.10. p-Stem Nouns -- C.11. Feminine Abstract Nouns in *-in -- C.12. Minor Noun Classes -- D. Pronouns -- D.1. Personal Pronouns -- D.2. Dual Pronouns -- D.3. Possessive Pronouns -- D.4. Interrogative Pronouns -- D.5. Indefinite Pronouns -- D.6. Demonstrative Pronouns and Definite Articles -- E. Adjectives -- E.1. Strong Adjective Declension -- E.2. Weak Adjective Declension -- E.3. Participial Adjectives -- E.4. Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Adjectives -- E.5. Adjectives in -lie -- E.6. Adjectives in Other Suffixes -- F. Numbers -- F.1. Cardinal Numbers -- F.2. Ordinal Numbers -- G. Verbs -- G.1. Strong Verbs -- G.2. Weak Verbs -- G.3. Anomalous Verbs -- G.4. Preterite-Present Verbs -- G.5. Contract Verbs -- G.6. Verbs with Direct Objects in the Dative Case -- H. Adverbs -- H.1. Prepositional Adverbs -- H.2. Adjectival Adverbs -- H.3. Nominal Adverbs -- H.4. Adverbial Adverbs in -weard -- H.5. Comparative and Superlative Adverbs -- I. Prepositions -- J. Conjunctions -- K. Interjections -- L. Sound Changes -- L.1. Grimm's Law -- L.2. Verner's Law -- L.3. Gemination before -j- -- L.4. i-Umlaut -- L.5. Fronting of West Germanic *a -- L.6. Breaking -- L.7. Diphthongization following Initial Palatals -- L.8. Syncopation -- L.9. Assimilation of Consonants -- L.10. Back Mutation -- L.11. Anglian Smoothing -- M. Word-Formation -- M.1. Word-Forming Prefixes -- M.2. Word-Forming Suffixes -- M.3. Functional Shift and Semantic Shift -- M.4. Borrowing -- N. Syntax -- N.1. Parts of Speech -- N.2. Syntactic Functions -- N.3. Grammatical Concord -- N.4. Word Order within Clauses -- N.5. Compound Sentences, Complex Sentences, and Order of Clauses -- O. Old English Dialects -- O.1. West Saxon -- O.2. Northumbrian -- O.3. Mercian -- O.4. Kentish -- P. Roman Dating.

Call Number

JFE 21-4935

ISBN

• 9781603293112
• 1603293116

LCCN

• 2019012615
• 40030378165

OCLC

1096213840

Author

Evans, Jonathan D. (Jonathan Duane), 1954- author.

Title

An introduction to Old English / Jonathan Evans.

Publisher

New York, New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Introduction to older languages, 1099-0313; 5

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

450-1100

Other Standard Identifier

40030378165

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4935