Old English : a historical linguistic companion

Old English A historical linguistic companion

Roger Lass

Book - 1994

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Subjects
English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Grammar, Historical.
Published
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1994.
Language
English
Main Author
Roger Lass (-)
Physical Description
xx, 300 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-279) and indexes.
ISBN
9780521458481
  • Preface
  • Conventions, symbols and abbreviations
  • Introduction and caveats: the notion 'Old English'
  • A note on handbooks
  • Part I. Historical prelude
  • 1. Background and origins
  • 1.1. History in linguistic description
  • 1.2. Indo-European and Germanic
  • 1.3. The attestation of Germanic
  • 1.4. Classification of the Germanic languages
  • 2. Indo-European to Proto-Germanic to West Germanic
  • 2.1. Germanic: an innovation cluster
  • 2.2. Formation of the PGmc vowel system
  • 2.3. The IE consonants: Grimm's Law
  • 2.4. The Accent Shift and Verner's Law
  • 2.5. Recapitulation: PGmc phonological systems
  • 2.6. Some further remarks on PGmc phonology
  • 2.7. Features of Northwest Germanic
  • 2.8. West Germanic
  • Part II. Old English Phonology
  • 3. Evolution of Old English phonology: the major early sound changes
  • 3.1. Sound change and linguistic structure
  • 3.2. West Germanic Gemination
  • 3.3. Pre-nasal vowels in Ingvaeonic and Anglo-Frisian
  • 3.4. West Germanic */[alpha]:/ and */[alpha]i/ in Ingvaeonic
  • 3.5. Anglo-Frisian Brightening, Restoration of [alpha] and the /ae/:/[alpha]/ opposition
  • 3.6. Diphthongs old and new: Breaking and related processes
  • 3.6.1. 'Long' and 'short' diphthongs
  • 3.6.2. Breaking, retraction and Diphthong Height Harmony
  • 3.6.3. Back umlaut
  • 3.6.4. Morphophonemic effects of diphthongization
  • 3.7. Palatalization
  • 3.8. I-umlaut
  • 3.8.1. From allophonic rule to phonemic contrast
  • 3.8.2. I-umlaut in detail
  • 3.8.3. I-umlaut and Old English morphology
  • 3.9. The fricatives: voicing, devoicing, hardening and deletion
  • 3.9.1. OE /f, [theta], s/
  • 3.9.2. The velars
  • 3.9.3. Fricative hardening and its consequences
  • 3.9.4. Appendix: 'Palatal Diphthongization'
  • 4. Suprasegmentals
  • 4.1. Suprasegmentals
  • 4.2. Germanic stress and Old English stress
  • 4.2.1. Stress rules and 'degrees of stress'
  • 4.2.2. The Germanic Stress Rule
  • 4.2.3. Old English stress
  • 4.3. Major developments in weak syllables
  • 4.3.1. Final reduction and loss
  • 4.3.2. High Vowel Deletion and medial syncope
  • Part III. Morphophonemic intermezzo
  • 5. Ablaut, the laryngeals and the IE root
  • 5.1. The basic alternations
  • 5.2. The conditioning of ablaut
  • 5.3. The laryngeals: 'Irregular' ablaut regularized and a new look for IE root-structure
  • 5.4. Roots and extensions
  • 5.5. Zero-grade revisited
  • 5.6. Appendix: consonantal alternations
  • Part IV. Morphology, lexis and syntax
  • 6. Inflectional morphology, I: nouns, pronous, determiners and adjectives
  • 6.1. The noun
  • 6.1.1. Root vs. stem, thematic vs. athematic
  • 6.1.2. IE noun-inflection: gender, number, case
  • 6.1.3. The major noun classes
  • 6.1.4. A note in retrospect
  • 6.2. Pronouns and determiners
  • 6.2.1. Personal pronouns
  • 6.2.2. 'Definite article'/demonstrative
  • 6.2.3. Interrogative pronouns
  • 6.3. The adjective
  • 6.3.1. The basic inflections
  • 6.3.2. Comparison
  • 7. Inflectional morphology, II: The verb
  • 7.1. Historical preliminaries
  • 7.2. The strong verb
  • 7.2.1. Ablaut in the strong verb, classes I-V
  • 7.2.2. The strong verb, classes VI-VII
  • 7.2.3. The strong past participle
  • 7.2.4. Infinitive and present participle (strong and weak)
  • 7.3. The weak verb
  • 7.3.1. The weak preterite suffix and past participle
  • 7.3.2. The weak verb classes
  • 7.4. Preterite presents and minor verb types
  • 7.4.1. Preterite presents
  • 7.4.2. Athematic root verbs and 'to be'
  • 7.5. Person/number/mood inflection
  • 7.5.1. The strong verb
  • 7.5.2. The weak verb: present system
  • 7.5.3. The weak verb: preterite
  • 8. Vocabulary and word-formation
  • 8.1. The PGmc lexicon
  • 8.2. Loans in Old English
  • 8.2.1. Latin
  • 8.2.2. Scandinavian
  • 8.2.3. Celtic and French
  • 8.3. Word-formation
  • 8.3.1. Typology and productivity
  • 8.3.2. Compounding
  • 8.3.3. Derivation
  • 8.4. Names, adverbs and numerals
  • 8.4.1. Proper names
  • 8.4.2. Adverbs
  • 8.4.3. Numerals
  • 9. Topics in OE historical syntax: word-order and case
  • 9.1. Reconstructed syntax?
  • 9.2. Basic constituent order
  • 9.3. The clausal brace and verb-second order
  • 9.4. The syntax of the OE cases in historical perspective
  • 9.4.1. Overview: form, function and syncretism
  • 9.4.2. Historical persistence or natural semantics? IE remains in OE case syntax
  • Part V. Historical postlude
  • 10. The dissolution of Old English
  • 10.1. Stasis, flux, transition
  • 10.2. Monophthongization and merger
  • 10.3. The new diphthongs
  • 10.4. Quantity adjustment
  • 10.5. Weak vowel collapse and the new morphology
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index of names
  • Subject index
  • Index of Old English words and affixes

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