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Chap. I (§§9--24) Phonology and Orthography |
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Chap. II (§§25--31) Grammatical Gender |
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Anglo-Frisian Brightening and Restoration of a |
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Chap. III (§§32--8) Neuter a-Stems |
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First and Second Person Pronouns |
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Chap. IV (§§39--45) o-Stems |
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Third Person and Reflexive Pronouns |
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26 | (5) |
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Chap. V (§§46--53) Weak Nouns |
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31 | (4) |
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Chap. VI (§§54--8) Strong and Weak Adjectives |
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35 | (5) |
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Chap. VII (§§59--66) Numerals |
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Chap. VIII (§§67--72) West Germanic Consonant Gemination and Loss of j |
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wa-, wo-, ja-, and jo-Stem Nouns |
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Dipthongization by Initial Palatal Consonants |
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Chap. IX (§§73--8) Proto-Germanic e before i and j |
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Chap. X (§§79--83) Present Inflections of Strong Verbs |
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Chap. XI (§§84--90) Strong Verbs of the First and Second Classes |
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Conjugation of Strong Verbs |
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Chap. XII (§§91--4) Strong Verbs of the Third Class |
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Chap. XIII (§§95--100) Strong Verbs of the Fourth and Fifth Classes |
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Chap. XIV (§§101--6) Strong Verbs of the Sixth and Seventh Classes |
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Variant Spellings with hr- |
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Chap. XV (§§107--11) Weak Verbs of the First Class |
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œ before Nasal Consonants |
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Chap. XVI (§§112--18) Conjugational Irregularities in Weak Verbs of the First Class |
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Confusion of High Front Vowels |
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Chap. XVII (§§119--22) Back Mutation |
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Weak Verbs of the Second and Third Classes |
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Change of sel- to syl-/sil- |
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Chap. XVIII (§§123--6) Preterite-Present Verbs |
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Prehistoric Anglo-Frisian Loss of Nasals before Fricatives |
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Convergence of Unstressed Vowels |
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Chap. XIX (§§127--30) Strong Verbs with Weak Presents |
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Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs |
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93 | (5) |
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Chap. XX (§§131--3) Loss of Medial h |
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Contracted Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives |
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98 | (4) |
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Chap. XXI (§§134--8) Anomalous Verbs |
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Rules for Palatalization and Affrication |
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Rules for Apocope and Syncope |
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Appendix A Sound Changes in the History and Prehistory of English |
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III Chief Developments of the Germanic Consonants into Old English |
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IV Chief Developments of the Stressed Vowels |
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V Chief Developments of the Unstressed Vowels |
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VI The Proto-Indo-European Origins of Old English Ablaut |
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VII Sound Changes in the Language after the Old English Period |
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Appendix B Old English Dialects, with Dialect Texts |
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II Specifically Kentish Characteristics |
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III General Anglian Features |
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IV Specifically Mercian Characteristics |
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V Specifically Northumbrian Characteristics |
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VII Samples of Texts in Non-Saxon Dialects |
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Appendix C Old English Poetic Diction and Poetic Form |
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132 | (7) |
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1 Two Selections from the Old English Bede |
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A The Arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain |
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139 | (2) |
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2 King Alfred's Preface to the Pastoral Care |
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3 Selections from the Parker Chronicle for 892-900 |
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148 | (5) |
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4 ælfric on the Three Estates |
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153 | (3) |
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156 | (3) |
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6 Ælfric's Passion of Saint Agatha |
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159 | (7) |
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7 Three Selections from the Old English Orosius |
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A The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan |
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166 | (4) |
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170 | (2) |
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C Pyrrhus's Wars with Rome |
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172 | (3) |
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175 | (5) |
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9 Wulfstan, De falsis dies |
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10 Boethius and Theodoric |
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11 Constantine Goes to Battle, from Cynewulf's Elene |
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189 | (6) |
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195 | (3) |
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198 | (4) |
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14 A Selection of Riddles from the Exeter Book |
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202 | (12) |
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214 | (5) |
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219 | (4) |
| Notes on the Texts |
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223 | (28) |
| Glossary |
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251 | (74) |
| Names of Persons, Peoples, and Places |
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325 | (5) |
| Grammatical Index |
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330 | (2) |
| Resources for Anglo-Saxonists |
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