Money Talks
Reconstructing Old English
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2011
VIII, 391 pages
978-3-11-088353-4 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2011
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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13 Abbildungen
13 ill.
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11,32 MB
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978-3-11-088353-4 (9783110883534)
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Content
- Intro
- 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
