Linguistics 411: Old English
Fall 2017 handouts
Attestation of Old English
Old English sounds
Old English kingdoms and dialects
Scandinavian settlement from place name evidence
Old English regular noun declension
Inflection of common Old English nouns
Inflections of Old English noun phrases with adjectives
Old English prepositions and the cases they govern
Old English nouns ending in -ing and -ling
Old English verbs and the cases they govern
Semantic functions of the cases in Old English
Most frequent Old English verbs
Longer list of Old English verbs
Nominal and verbal syncretisms in Old English
M & K reference grammar
translation problem in M&K's gospel text
parallelism in Old English declensions
Grimm's Law
historical development of the low vowels in Old English
Verner's Law
Verner's Law effects on the strong verbs of Old English
strong verb classes in pre-Proto-Germanic
the development of the strong verbs, classes I-III
class II strong verbs with ū in the root
development of strong preterits
syncopated verb forms
i umlaut verbs
Brief selections from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for back translation practice
Present and preterit types cross classified
Class 3 weak verbs compared to classes 1 and 2
Preterit-present verbs
