From Proto-indo-eeuropean to Proto-germanic

This book describes 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 focus throughout the book is on linguistic structure. In the course of his exposition Professor Ringe draws on a long tradition of work on many languages, including Hittite,
Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Gothic, and Old Norse. Written to be intelligible to those with a background in modern linguistic theory, 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 in the History will consider the development of Proto-Germanic into Old English. Subsequent volumes will describe the attested history of English from the Anglo-Saxon era to the present.

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• Authors: Don (EDT) Ringe
• Assisted by: Donald Ringe (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2006
• EAN: 9780199284139
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928413-9
• No. of pages: 355
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: A Linguistic History of English
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics