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. |
Contents
PART I DESCRIPTIVE MATERIAL | 2 |
PART II ILLUSTRATIVE TEXTS | 156 |
PART III BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY AND THEMATIC INDEX | 220 |
Old English Glossary | 229 |
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Common terms and phrases
1st person sg 2nd person sg 3rd person adjective adverb Anglo-Saxon bananas BIND bone century Chapter Chaucer Chaucerian English cnapan complex verb phrases consonants cyning Declension defined definition dialects diphthongs distinction Early Modern English EModE first forms French function gender genitive Germanic Gloys grammatical grammatical gender hath haue Hengest history of English indicated infinitive inflected inflexions Irreg King Late West Saxon letter lexical verb lexicon linguistic London Masc prop Middle English modifiers N Masc Neut noun phrase Old English paradigm passage past participle patterns period persons pl Peterborough Chronicle phrase 9 present Present-Day English pret pl pret sg preterite pronunciation refer reflecting reflexes relative pronoun sentence Shakespeare’s significance Sir Orfeo spelling strong verb subjunctive subordinate clause tense texts third person thou usage varieties verb phrase vowels West Saxon word-order words