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A Linguistic History of English: Volume I: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English)
by
Donald Ringe
This book is the first since 1897 to describe the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into Proto-Germanic, and provides a detailed account of the grammar of Proto-Germanic. The first volume in Don Ringe's A Linguistic H...more
Hardcover, 366 pages
Published
August 1st 2006
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published 2006)
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When Oxford University Press launched their multi-volume "A Linguistic History of English", they started from the very beginning. This first volume, written by Don Ringe, is titled FROM PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN TO PROTO-GERMANIC, and covers over its four hundred pages two reconstructable ancestors of English. While the series as a whole may interest a different crowd or crowds, this first volume is a major event for Indo-Europeanists. Ringe presents a complete view of Proto-Indo-European according to...more
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