The Cambridge history of the English language : Volume I the beginnings to 1066 / edited by, Richard M. Hogg.

Contents

1 : Introduction
1.1 Political history and language history
1.2 Ecclesiastical history and language history
1.3 Literacy history and language history
1.4 The nature of the evidence

2 : The place of english in Germanic and Indo-European
2.1 Language change and historical linguistics
2.2 The Germanic language
2.3 The Indo-European language
2.4 Historical Phonology
2.5 Historical Morphology
Etc.

3 : Phonology and Morphology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Orthography
3.3 Phonology
3.4 Morphology

4 : Syntax
4.1 General Background
4.2 Noun Phrases
4.3 Verbal Groups
4.4 Case assignment and the status of subject and object
4.5 Complex sentences
Etc.

5 : Semantic and Vocabulary
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Foreign influence
5.3 The stratification of the old English vocabulary
5.4 Word-formation
5.5 Semantics

6 : Old English Dialects
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Old English dialects : origins and sources
6.3 Orthographic and Phonological variation
6.4 Variation and dialectology

7 : Onomastics
7.1 General Principles
7.2 Anthroponymy
7.3 Toponymy

8 : Literacy Language
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Poetry
8.3 Prose

Includes Glossary p. 536-547, bibliographical references p. 548-588 and index p. 589-609