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Old English (Literature)
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The Earliest English: An Introduction to Old English Language
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Chris Mccully, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sharon Hilles, Professor of English, California State University, Pomona, USA

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 328 pp

ISBN-10: 0582404746
ISBN-13:9780582404748Help icon

Our Price: £28.99
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Published: 09 Sep 2004
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Using non-technical language The Earliest English' provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolution of Old English Language and Literature for introductory students of English Language and Linguistics.

In eight carefully structured units, the authors show how the vocabulary of Old English contains many items familiare to us today; how its characteristics poetic form is based on a beautiful and intricate simplicity; how its patterns of word building and inflectional strucutre are paralleled in several present day languages and how and why the English language and its literature continued to change so that by the mid 12th century the English language looks more like the 'English' that we are familiar with today.

 
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