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One of the original stated aims of Language and Liberation was to explain the language question to those involved in the fight to free the population of the Creole speaking Caribbean from extemal political and economic control. The other was to provide a historical, political and socioeconomic context within which supposedly value-free official language policies and practices could be understood. Both these aims remain relevant twenty years later. The context within which official language policy operates has however become more complex both internationally and within the Caribbean. The new chapter,'The Historical Present', written specially for this updated edition addresses this.

This book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into Proto-Germanic, and provides a detailed account of the grammar of Proto-Germanic. The focus throughout the book is on linguistic structure. In the course of his exposition Professor Ringe draws on a long tradition of work on many languages, including Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Gothic, and Old Norse. Written to be intelligible to those with a background in modern linguistic theory, the first volume in Don Ringe's A Linguistic History of English will be of central interest to all scholars and students of comparative Indo-European and Germanic linguistics, the history of English, and historical linguists. The next volume in the History will consider the development of Proto-Germanic into Old English. Subsequent volumes will describe the attested history of English from the Anglo-Saxon era to the present.

Der gesamte appellativische Wortschatz des Althochdeutschen (ca. 30.000 Wörter) wird durch Zuordnung zu ca. 2.900 Wortfamilien, optische Verdeutlichung der Binnenstruktur jedes einzelnen Wortes, zugeordnete Strukturformeln, Bedeutungsangaben und Literaturhinweise strukturiert und erklärt. Zudem ist eine alphabetische Liste der isolierten Wörter (ca. 750), eine vollständige, strukturierte Liste der Präfix- und Suffixwörter sowie ein alphabetisches Wortregister vorhanden.

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