Reading old English / Robert Hasenfratz and Thomas Jambeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hasenfratz, Robert J., 1957-

Contributor:

Jambeck, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Grammar.

English language.

English language--Old English--Grammar.

English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Readers.

English philology.

English philology--Old English.

English philology--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Genre:

Readers (Publications)

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xx, 553 pages, 2 unnumbered folded pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Subtitle from cover Primer and first reader

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, W.V. : West Virginia University Press, 2005.

Summary:

This book has many virtues, but its most innovative feature is the amount of pedagogy written into its pages. Traditionally, old English grammars have merely presented the grammatical information, and teachers have been left to organize it and communicate it to the students. This grammar, however, attempts to do quite a bit of the teaching, often warning students that one detail is particularly important to learn, or that they should not be discouraged by another seemingly illogical construction. The explanations are clear, and the exercises are well conceived and admirably plentiful. The authors have been diligent in avoiding ?dumbing-down? the material: students are expected to deal with most of the complexities demanded of them by more traditional grammars.

Contents:

Chapter 1 (Old English Alphabets and Pronunciation) 1

Lesson 1 Old English Alphabets 2

A Crash Course in Anglo-Saxon Paleography 4

Lesson 2 Pronunciation 7

The Briefest Possible Guide to Pronouncing Old English

Detailed Description of Old English Pronunciation 9

Exercise 1.9.1 Pronouncing OE Vowels 26

Exercise 1.9.2 Pronouncing OE Diphthongs 26

Exercise 1.9.3 Pronouncing OE Consonants 27

Exercise 1.9.4 IPA Exercise 28

Exercise 1.9.5 Pronounciation Practice 28

Chapter 2 (Getting Started: Nouns) 29

Lesson 1 Nouns 30

Anatomy of a Sentence 30

What the Endings Do 31

Gender 31

AElfric on the Concept of Gender 32

A Few Tips 33

The Definite Article (the) 34

Indefinitely (The Indefinite Article) 35

Pronoun Preview 35

Lesson 2 Main Noun Groups 36

AElfric on Nouns 36

Regular Masculines 37

Regular Feminines 37

Regular Neuters 37

Exercise 2.1 Identifying Short and Long Stems 40

Lesson 3 The Concept of Case 42

Nominative 42

Accusative 43

Genitive 44

Dative 46

Instrumental 48

AElfric on the Concept of Case 50

Exercise 2.2 Understanding Case 51

Exercise 2.3 Getting the Grammar Right 54

Reading II Practice Sentences 54

Vocabulary for Reading 56

Chapter 3 ("Weak" Nouns and Regular Verbs) 59

Lesson 1 Weak Nouns 60

Spotting Weak Nouns 60

Masculine Weak Nouns 61

Feminine Weak Nouns 62

Neuter Weak Nouns 62

Summary of Weak Noun Endings 63

Exercise 3.1 Understanding Case and Weak Nouns 63

Lesson 2 Weak Verbs 66

AElfric on Verbs 67

Principal Parts of OE Weak Verbs 67

Verb Categorization 68

Classes of Weak Verbs 69

Weak Verb Endings (Conjugations) 70

Weak Verbs of Class I 74

Weak Verbs of Class II 79

Distinguishing Weak I from Weak II 80

Exercise 3.2 Weak Verb Spotting 82

Reading III.i The Gospel of Luke 83

Reading III.ii Exeter Book Riddle #82 85

Vocabulary for Reading 86

Chapter 4 (Weak Verbs Class III and Irregular Verbs) 89

Lesson 1 Weak Verbs, Class III 90

Weak Verbs Class III: habban, hycgan, libban and secgan 90

Timesavers 91

Exercise 4.1 Learning Weak III Verbs 92

Exercise 4.2 More Reverse Translation 93

Distinctive Endings 96

Lesson 2 Unusual and Irregular Verb Forms 96

Preterite (Past)-Present Verbs 97

Timesavers 98

Preterite-Present Verb Conjugation 99

Some Irregularities: Anomalous Verbs 100

Timesavers 101

Anomalous Verbs: don, gan 102

Timesavers 104

Exercise 4.3 How to Stop Worrying and Live with Preterite-Present and Irregular Verbs 104

Exercise 4.4 Translation Exercise 105

Reading IV Wonders of the East (1) 109

Vocabulary for Reading 111

Chapter 5 (Learning How to Translate) 115

Step 1 Locating Clauses 116

Subordination 119

Exercise 5.1 Locating Clauses 125

Step 2 Finding the Complete Verb 126

Verbs with a Complex 127

Having and Being 128

Timesavers 130

Some Small Exceptions 131

Compounding the Problem 132

A Practice Run 133

Tenses 134

Accusative with Infinitive Constructions 135

Another Wrinkle 137

Exercise 5.2 Translating Accusative with Infinitives 138

Exercise 5.3 Finding the Complete Verb 141

Step 3 Finding the Subject 142

A Practice Run 142

Exercise 5.4 Finding the Subject 144

Step 4 Sorting out the Rest 145

Find the Direct Objects 145

The Dative Rule 147

The Genitive Rule 149

Exercise 5.5 Applying the Dative and Genitive Rules 150

A Practice Run 155

Pulling it All Together 155

Exercise 5.6 Sorting out the Rest 156

Vocabulary for Exercises 157

Reading V Wonders of the East (2) 159

Latin Original 160

Vocabulary for Reading 161

Chapter 6 (Adjectives and Adverbs, Prepositions) 167

Lesson 1 Adjectives 168

Strong Adjectives 168

Strong and Weak Adjectives 170

Weak Adjectives 171

Exercise 6.1 Recognizing "Strong" and "Weak" Adjectives 174

Participles as Adjectives 176

Exercise 6.2 Participles as Adjectives 178

Lesson 2 Comparative and Superlative Forms 183

Irregular Adjectives with Different Roots 185

Exercise 6.3 Recognizing Comparatives and Superlatives 187

Lesson 3 Adverbs 190

AElfric on Adverbs 191

Irregular Forms 192

Exercise 6.4 Distinguishing Adverbs from Adjectives 194

Lesson 4 Prepositions 198

Exceptional 199

Post-Positions 200

Either/Or Prepositions 201

Instrumental 202

Exercise 6.4 Prepositional Phrases 203

A Puzzle 206

Reading VI Wonders of the East (3) 208

Latin Original 209

Vocabulary for Reading 209

Chapter 7 (Personal Pronouns, Reflexives, Relatives) 215

Lesson 1 Personal Pronouns 216

First Person 216

Second Person 217

Third Person 217

Agreements and Disagreements 218

AElfric on Pronouns 219

Timesavers 219

Exercise 7.1 Personal Pronouns 220

Possessive 221

Lesson 2 Reflexive Pronouns 224

Verbs which Require a Reflexive 225

Exercise 7.2 Possessive and Reflexive Pronouns 228

Lesson 3 Who/Which (Relative Pronouns) 230

Three Alternatives 232

Headless Sentences 236

Exercise 7.3 Relative Pronouns 237

Why?: Interrogative Pronouns 242

This and That: Demonstrative Pronouns 243

Miscellaneous Pronouns 243

Whatever, Whoever 244

Reading VII.i Prognostics (1) 245

Vocabulary for Reading 246

Reading VII.ii Monastic Sign Language 248

Vocabulary for Reading 249

Chapter 8 (Strong Verbs I) 253

Strong Verb Classes 254

Class 1 Strong Verbs 256

Class 2 Strong Verbs 258

Class 3 Strong Verbs 259

Class 4 Strong Verbs 262

Exercise 8.1 Conjugating Strong Verbs 263

Lesson 2 Conjugation of Strong Verbs 264

Bitan and beodan 264

Bindan and brecan 265

Lesson 3 Summary of Base Forms 265

Timesavers 266

Exercise 8.2 Understanding Class 1-4 Strong Verbs 270

Exercise 8.3 Recognizing Syncopation, Assimilation, and I-Mutation 272

Exercise 8.4 Translation Practice 273

Vocabulary for Exercise 274

Reading VIII.i Prognostics (2) 277

Vocabulary for Reading 278

Reading VIII.ii From Vercelli Homily IX (1) 281

Vocabulary for Reading 282

Chapter 9 (Strong Verbs II) 287

Lesson 1 Classes 5-7 288

Class 5 Strong Verbs 288

Class 6 Strong Verbs 289

Class 7 Strong Verbs 291

Lesson 2 Conjugation of Strong Verbs 293

Sprecan and standan 293

Hatan and gangan 294

Lesson 3 A Few Exceptions 294

Some Irregular Strong Verbs 295

Biddan, licgan, steppan, and wepan 295

Exercise 9.1 Understanding Class 5, 6, and 7 Strong Verbs 296

Exercise 9.2 Infinitives 297

Exercise 9.3 Translation Exercise 298

Reading IX Vercelli Homily IX (2) 301

Vocabulary for Reading 302

Chapter 10 (Rarer Noun Forms) 309

-e in the Nominative 310

Endings with -w- 311

Feminine -jo- Stems 313

Foot-Feet (I-Mutation) Nouns 314

Mother/Father Nouns 317

U-Nouns 317

Abstract Feminine Nouns in -pu / -po 318

Children Nouns 319

Noun Stems Ending in -p 320

Nouns from Present Participles 321

I-stem Nouns 321

Reading X Vercelli Homily IX (3) 327

Vocabulary for Reading 329

Chapter 11 (Contract Verbs, Impersonal Constructions) 335

Lesson 1 Contract Verbs 336

Contract Verbs by Class 337

Conjugation of Contract Verbs 337

Exercise 11.1 Understanding the Forms of Contract Verbs 339

Exercise 11.2 Infinitives 340

Exercise 11.3 Translating Contract Verbs 340

Lesson 2 Impersonals 345

Exercise 11.4 Recognizing Impersonal Constructions 348

Reading XI The Human Fetus 352

Vocabulary for Reading 352

Appendix 1 A Basic Introduction to Traditional Grammar 357

Appendix 2 Summary of Sound Changes 397

The Old English Gloss to AElfric's Latin Colloquy 415

Four Lives of St. AE[characters not reproducible]eldry[characters not reproducible] 453

Account of St.

AE[characters not reproducible]eldry[characters not reproducible] in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People 456

Account of St. AE[characters not reproducible]eldry[characters not reproducible] in the OE Translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History 462

The Brief Life of St. AE[characters not reproducible]eldry[characters not reproducible] from the OE Martyrology 468

AElfric's Life of St. AE[characters not reproducible]eldry[characters not reproducible] 469

AE[characters not reproducible]eldry[characters not reproducible] in the News 473

A Quick Guide to Old English Poetry 479

The Wife's Lament 492.

ISBN:

1933202017

OCLC:

61769475