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in general.It is also an introduction toIndo-European studies in the particular sense in which they underpinthe history of English.Professor Roger Lass makes accessible in alinguistically up-to-date and readable form the Indo-European andGermanic background to Old English,as well as what can be recon-structed about the resulting state of Old English itself.His book is abridge between the more elementary Old English grammars and themajor philological grammars and recent interpretations of the OldEnglish data.  \nA further and important aim of Old English is to encourage a view ofthe language as emerging from and implicated in a complex and ancientbackground,carrying in its structure relics of a long history.Thephonology,morphology,morphophonology and some aspects of itssyntax are,therefore,viewed from a wide historical perspective.Thefeatures of the language are seen partly as backward-looking to Indo-European and German,partly as forward-looking to later stages ofEnglish,as well as constituting the synchronic structure of Old Englishitself.  \nIn Old English,Roger Lass assumes a basic knowledge of synchroniclinguistic theory(phonetics,phonology,morphology and syntax),and atleast an introductory acquaintance with historical linguistics.An exten-sive glossary gives definitions of the major technical terms used.  \nx4  \n# Old English\n\nA historical linguistic companion  \nRoger Lass  \nUniversity of Cape Toun  \nWITHDRAWN  \n.  \nPublished by the Press Syndicate of the University of CambridgeThe Pitt Building,Trumpington Street,Cambridge CB21RP40West 20th Street,New York,NY 10011-4211,USA10 Stamford Road,Oakleigh,Melbourne 3166,Australia  \nCCambridge University Press 1994  \nFirst published 1994  \nPrinted in Great Britain at the University Press,Cambridge  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress cataloguing in publication data  \nLass,Roger.Old English:a historical linguistic companion /Roger Lass.  \ncm.  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