Routledge Revivals: An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar (1936) - 9781138237117

Taylor & Francis

Routledge Revivals: An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar (1936)Published as an Appendix to \""An Anglo-Saxon Reader\""\nAuthor(s): James W. Bright\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138237117, 978-1138237117\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1936, this book is intended to provide an outline of Anglo-Saxon grammar for beginners, focusing on well-selected, succinctly stated rules rather than giving a detailed survey. It focuses on the West-Saxon dialect as this is best suited to beginners due to its uniformity in phonology and inflection, the fact it forms the basis of Anglo-Saxon grammar, and its prominence in the extant literature. Extracts have been selected from this literature to provide a sufficient basis, via the study of the easier to grasp later form of the dialect, to prepare the reader for the more difficult early West-Saxon dialect and further chronological study of the texts.