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The English Language Before England: An Epigraphic Account

The English Language Before England: An Epigraphic Account

Mees, Bernard

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Historical Linguistics

GermanLinguistics

ISBN10: 1032214171
ISBN13: 9781032214177
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 16 2022
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This pioneering work explores epigraphic evidence for the development of English before the Anglo-Saxon period, bringing together linguistic, historical and archaeological perspectives on early inscriptions, making them more accessible to a wider audience.

The volume offers a new account of the Germanic development of Anglo-Saxon England, beginning with an examination of the earliest inscriptions from northern Europe and the oldest inscriptions preserving Germanic names, many of which have only been discovered since the 1980s. The book charts the origins of key terms such as Angle, Saxon and Jute and early writing systems used by Germanic peoples. Drawing on epigraphic evidence from northwestern Germany through to southwestern Denmark and sub-Roman Britain, Mees situates the analysis within historical and linguistic frameworks but also provides archaeological contextualisations, assessed chronologically, for the inscriptions. Taken together, the work re-examines existing models of the early development of English through the lens of contemporary approaches, opening paths for new directions in research on historical dialectology.

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