* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
LINGUIST List logo Eastern Michigan University Wayne State University *
* People & Organizations * Jobs * Calls & Conferences * Publications * Language Resources * Text & Computer Tools * Teaching & Learning * Mailing Lists * Search *
* *
LINGUIST List 20.137

Thu Jan 15 2009

Books: Historical Linguistics: Ringe (Ed)

Editor for this issue: Hannah Morales <hannahlinguistlist.org>

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue.
Directory
        1.    Elyse Turr, A Linguistic History of English: Ringe (Ed)
Message 1: A Linguistic History of English: Ringe (Ed)
Date: 15-Dec-2008
From: Elyse Turr <elyse.turroup.com>
Subject: A Linguistic History of English: Ringe (Ed)
E-mail this message to a friend

Title: A Linguistic History of English
Subtitle: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic
Series Title: Linguistic History of English
Published: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
                http://www.oup.com/us

Editor: Donald A. Ringe
Paperback: ISBN: 0199552290 9780199552290 Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 50.00
Abstract:

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, Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Gothic,
and Old Norse. Written to be intelligible to those with a backgroun 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.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Written In: English (eng )

See this book announcement on our website:
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=38684

Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue

-------------------------- Major Supporters --------------------------
Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/
European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info.
Hodder Education http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk
John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/
Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu
MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ----------------------
International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be



Please report any bad links or misclassified data

LINGUIST Homepage | Read LINGUIST | Contact us

NSF Logo

While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed
on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.