Essentials of Early English: Old, Middle and Early Modern EnglishRoutledge, 2013 M01 11 - 272 pages A practical and accessible introduction to the early stages of the English language: Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English. |
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Contents
PART I DESCRIPTIVE MATERIAL | 2 |
PART II ILLUSTRATIVE TEXTS | 157 |
PART III BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY AND THEMATIC INDEX | 220 |
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1st person sg 2nd person sg 3rd person adjective adverb æfter Anglo-Saxon bananas BIND Cæsar century Chapter Chaucer's Chaucerian English Class cnapan complex verb phrases consonants constructions Declension dialects diphthongs distinction Early Modern English Ellesmere EModE expressed Finite verbs forms French function gender genitive Germanic Gloys grammatical grammatical gender hath haue Hengest history of English hläford indicates inflected inflexions Interpretative notes appear King Late West Saxon letter lexical verb lexicon linguistic London Middle English modify noun phrase Old English paradigm passage past participle patterns period person pronouns persons pl Peterborough Chronicle phonetic pone present Present-Day English preterite pronunciation relative pronoun Scots sentence Shakespeare's Sir Orfeo spelling strong verb subjunctive subordinate clause tense texts third person thou usage varieties verb phrase vowels weak verbs West Saxon word-order words þæm þære þæt þat þone