Description: Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England : The Linguistics and Culture of the Old English Onomasticon, Hardcover by Colman, Fran, ISBN 0198701675, ISBN-13 9780198701675, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or nick-) names, and how they were used in Anglo-Saxon England. It discusses their etymologies, semantics, and grammatical behaviour, and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon history and culture. From that culture survive thousands of names on coins, in manuscripts, on stone and other inscriptions. Names are important and their absence a stigma (Grendel's parents have no names); they may have particular functions in ritual and magic; they mark individuals, generally people but also beings with close human contact such as dogs, cats, birds, and horses; and they may provide indications of rank and gender. Dr Colman explores the place of names within the structure of Old English, their derivation, formation, and other linguistic behaviour, and compares them with the products of other Germanic (., Present-day German) and non-Germanic (., Ancient and Present-day Greek) naming systems. Old English personal names typically followed the Germanic system of elements based on common words like leof (adjective 'beloved') and wulf (noun 'wolf'), which give Leofa and Wulf, and often combined as in Wulfraed, (raed noun, 'advice, counsel') or as in Leofing (with the diminutive suffix -ing). The author looks at the combinatorial and sequencing possibilities of these elements in name formation, and assesses the extent to which, in origin, names may be selected to express qualities manifested by, or expected in, an individual. She examines their different modes of inflection and the variable behaviour of names classified as masculine or feminine. The results of her wide-ranging investigation are provocative and stimulating.
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Book Title: Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England : The Linguistics and Cul
Number of Pages: 324 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England : the Linguistics and Culture of the Old English Onomasticon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Old & Middle English, Linguistics / General, Linguistics / Etymology
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 23 Oz
Type: Language Course
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Fran Colman
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
