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Money Talks : Reconstructing Old English.
Title:
Money Talks : Reconstructing Old English.
Author:
Colman, Fran.
ISBN:
9783110883534
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (400 pages)
Series:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; v.56

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Contents:
Foreword -- Chapter One: Opening an account -- 1. The data and their uses -- 2. Some claims -- 3. Orthography and phonology -- 4. Onomastics -- 5. Numismatics -- 6. Summary -- Chapter Two: The game of the name -- 1. Preamble -- 2. Etymological classification -- 3. Vocabulary -- 4. Combination of name-elements -- 5. By-names -- 6. Nationalities of name-elements -- 7. A synchronic account of an Old English onomatic system -- 8. Inflectional morphology -- 9. Name-changes -- 10. Paronomasia -- Chapter Three: Person, place or thing?: Rose is not a rose -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The names and their etymologies -- Chapter Four: Hidden talents -- 1. The coin types -- 2. Arguments for the chronology of types: internal evidence of the coins -- 3. Arguments for the chronology of types: external evidence of hoards -- 4. Arguments for the chronology of types: external evidence of mints and moneyers -- 5. Summary of evidence for the type-sequence -- Chapter Five: The die is not cast -- 1. The epigraphic symbols and identification of errors -- 2. Explication of epigraphic errors -- 3. Conclusion -- Chapter Six: The money talks -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stressed vowels -- 3. Reflexes of Proto-Germanic stressed vowels represented on the coins -- 4. Main vowels of second elements -- 5. Vowels of unstressed syllables -- 6. Conclusions about developments of unstressed vowels -- 7. Consonants -- 8. Consonants in simplex names and in pro to themes of non-simplex names -- 9. Consonants of second elements -- Chapter Seven: That'll do nicely -- 1. Stressed vowels -- 2. Root vowels in second elements of non-simplex names -- 3. Unstressed vowels -- 4. Consonants -- 5. The current account -- Appendix: A catalogue of moneyers' names on coins of Edward the Confessor -- Notes -- References -- Index of moneyers' name-elements -- Index of subjects.
Abstract:
The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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