A grammar of the Icelandic or old Norse tongue / Rasmus Kristian Rask ; translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rask, Rasmus, 1787-1832.

Contributor:

Dasent, George Webbe, Sir, 1817-1896.

Markey, Thomas L.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Amsterdam classics in linguistics, 1800-1925 ; Series I, 2.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series I, Amsterdam classics in linguistics, 1800-1925 ; v. 2

Standardized Title:

Vejledning til det islandske ... sprog. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Old Norse language--Grammar.

Old Norse language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Edition:

New edition, with a preface, an introductory article, bibliographies and notes / by T.L. Markey.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1976.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask's Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This re-edition, with an added bio-bibliography of Rask, should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this important 19th-century scholar who, together with Bopp and Grimm, has justly been ranked among the founding fathers of the comparative-historical study of Indo-European languages. Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787-1832) did not occupy himself with historical linguistics alone as a comparativist,

Contents:

A GRAMMAR OF THE ICELANDIC OR OLD NORSE TONGUE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; RASMUS KRISTIAN RASK HIS LIFE AND WORK; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RASK'S WORKS; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES; A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION; CORRECTIONS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Translator's Preface.; FIRST PART. The System of the Alphabet.; CHAPTER I. On the forms of the Letters.; CHAPTER II. Of Pronunciation.; CHAPTER III. On the change of sound in the old Norse.; CHAPTER IV. On the transition of words.; SECOND PART. The System of Inflection.; CHAPTER V. Of Substantives.

CHAPTER VI. Of Adjectives.CHAPTER VII. Of Pronouns; CHAPTER VIII. Of Verbs.; CHAPTER IX. Of the Particles.; THIRD PART. The Formation of words.; CHAPTER X. General View.; CHAPTER XI. Derivation.; CHAPTER XII. Composition.; FOURTH PART. Syntax.; CHAPTER XIII. General view.; CHAPTER XIV. Syntax of Substantives.; CHAPTER XV. Syntax of Adjectives.; CHAPTER XVI. Syntax of Pronouns.; CHAPTER XVII. Syntax of Verbs.; CHAPTER XVIII. Particles.; CHAPTER XIX. Of Ellipses.; FIFTH PART. Prosody.; CHAPTER XX. Metres.; CHAPTER XXI. Of the different kinds of verse.; CHAPTER XXII. Kinds of Poetry.

CHAPTER XXIII. Modern Poetry. SIXTH PART. Of the Dialects.; CHAPTER XXIV. Historical View.; CHAPTER XXV. The Oldest and Poetic Dialect.; CHAPTER XXVI. The modern Tongue.; EXTRACTS IN PROSE AND VERSE BY WAY OF PRAXIS.; A Hinar fornu runir; The series AMSTERDAM CLASSICS IN LINGUISTICS, 1800-1925

Notes:

Reprint of the 1843 ed. published by W. Pickering, London.

Bibliography of works by R.K. Rask: p. xxxvii-xliii.

Bibliography: p. xliv-lii.

ISBN:

1-283-05141-9

9786613051417

90-272-8656-6

OCLC:

712015649