A History of English
Volume I: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic
ISBN13: 9780199284139ISBN10: 019928413X
Hardback,
366 pages
Oct 2006,
In Stock
Price:
$125.00 (06)Description
This book is the first since 1897 to describe the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into Proto-Germanic, and provides a detailed account of the grammar of Proto-Germanic. The first volume in Don Ringe's A Linguistic History of English will be of central interest to all scholars and students of comparative Indo-European and Germanic linguistics, the history of English, and historical linguists. The next volume will consider the development of Proto-Germanic into Old English. Subsequent volumes will describe the attested history of English from the Old English period to the present.Features
- The first book since 1897 to describe how a dialect of Proto-Indo-European developed into Proto-Germanic
- Written by one of the world's leading scholars in historical linguistics
- The first volume in a new multi-volume history of English written or co-written by Don Ringe
About the Author(s)
Don Ringe was educated at the University of Kentucky, Oxford, and Yale and has taught Classical studies and linguistics at the university level since 1983. He is Kahn Endowed Term Professor in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of numerous publications on comparative Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics, and computational cladistics, including On the Chronology of Sound Changes in Tocharian
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