Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions, symbols and abbreviations
- Introduction and caveats: the notion ‘Old English’
- Part I Historical prelude
- Part II Old English Phonology
- Part III Morphophonemic intermezzo
- Part IV Morphology, lexis and syntax
- Part V Historical postlude
- Glossary
- References
- Index of names
- Subject index
- Index of Old English words and affixes
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions, symbols and abbreviations
- Introduction and caveats: the notion ‘Old English’
- Part I Historical prelude
- Part II Old English Phonology
- Part III Morphophonemic intermezzo
- Part IV Morphology, lexis and syntax
- Part V Historical postlude
- Glossary
- References
- Index of names
- Subject index
- Index of Old English words and affixes
Summary
So grew the Romaine Empire by degree,
Till that Barbarian hands it quite did spill,
And left of it but these olde markes to see
As they which gleane, the reliques vse to gather,
Which th'husbandman behind him chanst to scater.
Spenser, The ruines of Rome, 3- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Old EnglishA Historical Linguistic Companion, pp. 7 - 8Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994