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Old English : A Historical Linguistic Companion
Old English A Historical Linguistic Companion Author:Roger Lass Old English is a companion to Old English studies and to historical studies of early English in general. Professor Roger Lass makes accessible in a linguistically up-to-date and readable form the Indo-European and Germanic background to Old English, as well as what can be reconstructed about the resulting state of Old English itself. He bridges... more » the gap between elementary Old English grammars and the major philological grammars and recent interpretations of Old English data.« less