The History of English
A Linguistic Introduction
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What you will learn
Basic concepts in theoretical (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax) and historical linguistics
All about the history of the English language over thousands of years
About Proto-Indo-European, its structure and its daughter languages
About Proto-Germanic, its structure (e.g., phonetics, phonology, morphology)
About Gothic, Old Saxon, Old High German, and other Proto-Germanic daughter languages (including Old English)
About Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English, including their historic context, sounds, grammar, and literature, as well as hear texts from the period
How linguists use the Comparative Method to reconstruct dead languages
Enough to strike out on your own in learning to read Old, Middle, and Early Modern English texts in the original!
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