A Gentle Introduction to Old English

ISBN-13: 9781551118413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str.

Murray McGillivray

Opis

Presents the essential points of Old English grammar. It includes a selection of short, relatively simple original language texts, with annotations. Numerous practice exercises are also included throughout. A companion website includes more interactive exercises, pronunciation samples, and further sample texts

Spis treści

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Some Grammatical Terminology You Will Need
• Chapter 2: Pronunciation and Spelling of Old English
• Chapter 3: Strong Nouns and an Introduction to Old English Cases
• Chapter 4: Demonstratives; Nominative and Genitive Cases
• Chapter 5: A Few Old English Verbs; Accusative and Dative Cases
• Chapter 6: Weak Verbs: Subjunctive, Participles, Infinitives
• Chapter 7: Strong Nouns and Cases
• Chapter 8: Strong Verbs; Personal Pronouns
• Chapter 9: Weak Nouns and Noun Oddities; Numerals
• Chapter 10: Adjectives
• Chapter 11: Word Order in Noun Phrases and Sentences; the Subjunctive
• Chapter 12: Old English Metre, Poetic Diction, and Poetic Syntax
• Prose Readings
• Abraham and Isaac
• The Birth of Jesus
• The Story of Ohthere
• Aelfric’s Colloquy
• Select Bibliography
• Index