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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 10 Terminology 12 List of symbols and a note on conventions 12 Abbreviations 12 Using this book 16 UNIT 1: Thinking about the earliest English 18 1.0 Preliminaries 18 1.1 Uniformity and change 19 1.2 Initial terminology 23 1.3 Old English poetry 25 1.4 Reading passage 27 1.5 Words, words, words 30 1.6 Pronouncing Old English 34 Summary 44 Study questions 44 websites 45 further reading 46 UNIT 2: History, culture, language origins 48 2.0 Reading passage 48 2.1 Some history 62 2.2 A language-family tree 69 2.3 The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy 76 Summary 78 Study questions 78 websites 80 further reading 80 UNIT 3: Nouns 84 3.0 Mercenaries and settlers 84 3.1 The Germania 85 3.2 The Germania and the Anglo-Saxons 85 3.3 Local shires and their politics 87 3.4 Women 88 3.5 Reading passage 89 3.6 Inflections, nouns and grammatical roles 94 3.7 Inflections in other languages 95 3.8 Articles in OE 97 3.9 More on OE articles, noun inflections and grammatical case 97 3.10 Inflections on OE nouns 102 3.11 Additional noun declensions in OE 105 3.12 Pronouns 106 3.13 NPs, nominals, strong and weak adjectives 109 Summ

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McCully, C. B.,Hilles, Sharon

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