Date: 24-Jul-2006 From: Jenny Breaker <jenny.breakeroup.com> Subject: A History of English: Ringe
Title: A History of English
Subtitle: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic
Series Title: A History of English Series
Published: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Donald Ringe, University of Pennsylvania
Hardback: ISBN: 019928413X Pages: 320 Price: U.K. £ 60.00
Abstract:
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.