1st Edition
The Earliest English An Introduction to Old English Language
Acknowledgements
List of symbols
Abbreviations
Using this book
1. Thinking about the earliest English
2. History, culture, language origins
3. Nouns
4. Verbs
Interlude. Working with dictionaries
5. OE Metric
6. Standards and Crosses
7. Twilight
8. Rebuilding English
At-a-glance guide to inflections (1): classical Old English, nouns
At-a-glance guide to inflections (2): classical old English, verbs
References
Biography
Chris McCully is a freelance writer and academic. He has published widely in the fields of English historical linguistics, Old English and English phonology.
Sharon Hilles is Professor of English at California State Polytechnic University where she teaches Linguistics, grammar, first and second language acquisition and the development of modern English.
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