The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England: The Linguistics and Culture of the Old English Onomasticon
Author:   Fran Colman
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198701675


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   24 July 2014
Format:   Hardback
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The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England: The Linguistics and Culture of the Old English Onomasticon


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Author:   Fran Colman
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9780198701675


ISBN 10:   0198701675
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   24 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Introduction Part I: On Names 2: Names as words 3: Names are not nouns 4: A name is a name Part II: Towards the Old English Onomasticon 5: Old English personal-name formation 6: General lexical formation 7: Structures of Old English personal names 8: On the role of the paradigm as a marker of lexical formation 9: An Old English onomasticon

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Retired as Reader in English Language at the University of Edinburgh in 2002, Fran Colman continues to research and lecture on the structure and history of the English language, notably on the names and coinage of Anglo-Saxon England. She has been an invited lecturer at universities and learned societies in Australia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Scotland, Spain. Her previous publications include Money Talks: Reconstructing Old English (de Gruyter Mouton, 1992), Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles: Royal Coin Cabinet Stockholm. Part V: Anglo-Saxon Coins: Edward the Confessor and Harold II, 1042-1066 (published for the British Academy by OUP and Spink and Son Ltd., 2007) and, as editor, Evidence for Old English (John Donald, 1992).

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