A History of English: Volume I: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic
Donald Ringe “A History of English: Volume I: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2006-11-09 | ISBN: 019928413X | 366 pages | PDF | 1,91 MB
Oxford University Press, USA | 2006-11-09 | ISBN: 019928413X | 366 pages | PDF | 1,91 MB
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.
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