Englisches Seminar
Universität Münster
Here is a selective bibliography containing several publications important for
the study of Old English. The code in square brackets denotes the
respective signature in the departmental library.
Contents:
1. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1a. Introductions
Algeo, J.,
Problems in the Origins and Development of the English Language, 3rd ed. (New York, 1982) [S FA 1966]
Barber, C.,
The English Language: a Historical Introduction
(Cambridge, 1993) [S FA 1993:3]
Baugh, A. C., and T. Cable,
A History of the English Language, 5th ed. (London and New York, 2002) [S FA 1951]
Blake, N.,
A History of the English Language
(London, 1996) [S FA 1996:2]
Bourcier, G.,
An Introduction to the History of the English Language, trans. C. Clark (Cheltenham, 1981) [S FA 1978]
Crystal, D.,
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
(Cambridge, 1995) [0.1 CRYS 95]
Fennell, B.,
A History of English: a Sociolinguistic Approach
(Oxford, 2001) [S FA 2001:1]
Freeborn, D.,
From Old English to Standard English: a Course Book in Language Variation across Time, 2nd ed. (London, 1998) [S FE 1992:1]
Görlach, M.,
Einführung in die englische Sprachgeschichte, 3rd ed., Uni-Taschenbücher 383 (Heidelberg, 1994) =
The Linguistic History of English: an Introduction
(London, 1997) [S FA 1982:3]
Hogg, R., ed.,
The Cambridge History of the English Language, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1992-2001) [S FA 1992:1]
Millward, C. M.,
A Biography of the English Language, 2nd ed. (Fort Worth, 1996) [S FA 1996:3]
Millward, C. M.,
Workbook to Accompany a Biography of the English Language
(London, 1999)
Pyles, T.,
The Origins and Development of the English Language, 4th ed. (Fort Worth, 1993) [S FA 1964]
Smith, J. J.,
Essentials of Early English
(London, 1999) [S FA 1999:3]
Strang, B. M. H.,
A History of English
(London, 1970) [S FA 1970:2]
1b. Dictionaries
Murray, J. A. H., H. Bradley, W. A. Craigie, C. T. Onions, R. W. Burchfield, J.
A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner, ed.,
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 20 vols. (Oxford, 1989) [W 2/6]
Onions, C. T., G. W. S. Friedrichsen and R. W. Burchfield, ed.,
The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
(Oxford, 1966) [W 727]
1c. Grammars
Brunner, K.,
Die englische Sprache: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Tübingen, 1960) [S FA 1950]
Luick, K.,
Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1914-40) [S FJ 1921]
1d. Readers
Burnley, D.,
The History of the English Language: a Source Book, 2nd ed. (Harlow, 2000) [S FA 1992:3]
Treharne, E. M.,
Old and Middle English: an Anthology
(Oxford, 2000) [AE AAB 2000:1]
1e. Other
Prins, A. A.,
A History of English Phonemes from Indo-European to Present-Day English
(Leiden, 1972) [1.1.2 Prin 72]
Scragg, D. G.,
A History of English Spelling, Mont Follick Series 3 (Manchester, 1974) [6.0 SCRA 74]
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2. OLD ENGLISH
2a. Introductions
Baker, P. S.,
Introduction to Old English
(Oxford, 2003) [S GA 2003:1]
Hogg, R.,
An Introduction to Old English
(Edinburgh, 2002) [S GA 2002:1]
Mitchell, B.,
An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England
(Oxford, 1995) [LIT CA 1995:1]
Mitchell, B., and F. C. Robinson,
A Guide to Old English, 6th ed. (Oxford, 2001) [S GA 1965]
Pollington, S.,
First Steps in Old English, Anglo-Saxon Books (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1997) [S GA 1997:1]
Weimann, K.,
Einführung ins Altenglische, 3rd ed., Uni-Taschenbücher 1210 (Heidelberg and Wiesbaden, 1995) [S GA
1982]
2b. Dictionaries
Bosworth, J., and T. N. Toller, ed.,
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late
Joseph Bosworth
(Oxford, 1898); supplement ed. T. N. Toller (Oxford, 1921); second supplement
ed. A. Campbell (Oxford, 1972) [W 601]
Hall, J. R. C., ed.,
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 4th ed., supplement ed. H. D. Meritt (Cambridge, 1960) [W 603]
Holthausen, F., ed.,
Altenglisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed. (Heidelberg, 1974) [W 701]
Pollington, S.,
Wordcraft: Wordhoard and Wordlists (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1993) [W 602]
2c. Grammars
Brunner, K.,
Altenglische Grammatik, 3rd ed. (Tübingen, 1965) [S GG 1942]
Campbell, A.,
Old English Grammar
(Oxford, 1959) [S GG 1959]
Hogg, R. M.,
A Grammar of Old English. Volume I: Phonology
(Oxford and Cambridge, MA, 1992) [S GG 1992]
Quirk, R., and C. L. Wrenn,
An Old English Grammar
, 2nd ed. (Manchester, 1962) [S GG 1955]
2d. Readers
Whitelock, D., ed.,
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse, 15th ed. (Oxford, 1967) [AE AAB 1876]
2e. Other
Cameron, A., 'A List of Old English Texts', in
A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed. R. Frank and A. Cameron (Toronto, 1973), pp. 25-306 [W 613]
Godden, M., & M. Lapidge, ed.,
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
(Cambridge, 1991) [LIT CA 1991:1]
Ker, N. R.,
Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon
(Oxford, 1957); reprinted with supplement (Oxford, 1990) [Bi 203]
Lapidge, M., et al., ed.,
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England
(Oxford, 1999) [EW EC 1999:1]
Page, R. I.,
An Introduction to English Runes
(London, 1973) [S ED 1973:3]
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