About the Book
This course has been designed to be of value to a variety of students, ranging from those who are teaching themselves at home, to undergraduates who are learning Old English as part of their Englisg degree course. Although the author is a linguist, he is aware that some individuals have little aptitude for learning languages and that many have difficulty with grammar. To overcome these problems the author has adopted a step-by-step approach which enables students of differing abilities to advance at their own pace. It includes many exercises designed to aid the learning process.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Old English course: the noun, "the" (se, seo, poet), "this", the subject; the object, word order, negation; personal pronouns (nominative), present tense, weak verbs (hieran), infinitive verbs, personal pronouns (accusative); the adjective, the adjective ending -u, -e, eh, numerals, prepositions (with the accusative), the dative, preopositions (with the dative); the indirect object, "to be" (wesan/beon) and the future tense, possessive adjectives, "no, none" (nan), "to have" and "to have not" (habban, nabban); the genitive, nouns ending in -e (stede), present tense, weak verbs (fremman, nerian), imperative mood (second person), imperative mood (first person plural); relative clauses, "he who" / "that which", present tense, weak verbs (lufian), noun plurals with vowel change (mann/menn), vowel correspondences (i-mutation); verb types (weak, strong, preterite-present), present tense, strong verbs, "when" and "then" (hwonne, ponne, pa); interrogatives, indefinate pronouns; past tense, weak verbs, past participle, weak verbs, perfect and pluperfect tenses, weak verbs, syllable weight, nouns ending -u, nouns ending -oo; nouns ending -r, past tense, weak verbs ( bycgan, sellan, weccan), adverbs, nouns ending in -end, -o, and with plural in -r-, past tense, strong verbs (ridan), past tense, strong verbs (leon); nouns ending -h, dative - further uses, weak nouns, past tense, strong verbs (hreowan), past participle, strong verbs (ridan, hreowan), accusative - further uses; the adjective, weak endings, the adjectival substantive, past tense, strong verbs (weorpan, helpan, findan), ordinal numerals, past tense, strong (beran, cuman, scieran); the comparative adjective, past tense, strong verbs (specan, etan, giefan), the suparlative adjective, the irregular comparative/superlative adjective, the present particle; past tense, strong verbs (wadan), numerals - oblique cases, pasrt, strong verbs (cnawan, sloepan), pronouns (se, wit, git); preterite-present verbs - cunnan, witan, nystan, motan, magan, sculan, willan, nyllan, agan, purfan, durran, gemunan, dugan; inflected infinitive, impersonal verbs, adverbs - comparative and superlative, subjunctive mood, subjunctive mood - uses, subjunctive mood - wesan, beon; clauses of purpose and result, "such" and "so" - swa, instrumantal case, personal names, adverbs of motion and direction; conjunctions, word formation - composition, word formation - affixation, word formation - derivation.
