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To such readers Ringe recommends systematic study of Old English grammar and voluminous reading of Old and Middle English primary texts (p. x), alongside his history of English morphology. It also leaves aside the possibility that OE I cnearr i could reflect a nativised spelling of ON I kn rr i produced by a monoglot speaker of OE. Ringe, Don A Historical Morphology of English Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2021 xi + 205 Over the last ten years or so, the "Advanced" branch of the Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language series has produced some of the most accessible guides to areas of historical linguistics which are currently in print. The I Dictionary of Old English i ([6]) charts some 100 occurrences of OE I antecrist i , a term well established in late Anglo-Saxon homiletic literature, complete with OE case endings and reduction of the unstressed vowel (to which the similarly well-established OE I antefn i , "antiphon", and I antefnere i , "book containing antiphons", can be added, as related loans). [Extracted from the article] |
