 | Routledge Revivals: An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar (1936): Published as an Appendix to "An Anglo-Saxon Reader" Subjects: Language & Literature; Language & Linguistics; Language Teaching & Learning; English Language; Grammar Syntax & Linguistic Structure; Linguistics; Languages of Western Europe; First 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. |
