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The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England: The Linguistics and Culture of the Old English Onomasticon
Author(s): Fran Colman (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: September 30, 2014
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 324 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198701675
- ISBN-13: 9780198701675
Book Description
This book examines the etymology, semantics, and grammatical behaviour of personal names in Anglo-Saxon England and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon history and culture. The results of Dr Colman's wide-ranging investigation also have consequences for traditional analyses of linguistic structures.
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From the Publisher
Retired as Reader in English Language at the University of Edinburgh in 2002, Fran Colman continues to research and lecture on the structure and history of the English language, notably on the names and coinage of Anglo-Saxon England. She has been an invited lecturer at universities and learned societies in Australia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Scotland, Spain. Her previous publications include Money Talks: Reconstructing Old English (de Gruyter Mouton, 1992), Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles: Royal Coin Cabinet Stockholm. Part V: Anglo-Saxon Coins: Edward the Confessor and Harold II, 1042-1066 (published for the British Academy by OUP and Spink and Son Ltd., 2007) and, as editor, Evidence for Old English (John Donald, 1992).
About the Author
Retired as Reader in English Language at the University of Edinburgh in 2002, Fran Colman continues to research and lecture on the structure and history of the English language, notably on the names and coinage of Anglo-Saxon England. She has been an invited lecturer at universities and learned societies in Australia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Scotland, Spain. Her previous publications include Money Talks: Reconstructing Old English (de Gruyter Mouton, 1992), Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles: Royal Coin Cabinet Stockholm. Part V: Anglo-Saxon Coins: Edward the Confessor and Harold II, 1042-1066 (published for the British Academy by OUP and Spink and Son Ltd., 2007) and, as editor, Evidence for Old English (John Donald, 1992).
