Download or read book Routledge Revivals: An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar (1936) written by James W. Bright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1936, this book is intended to provide an outline of Anglo-Saxon grammar for beginners, focusing on well-selected, succinctly stated rules rather than giving a detailed survey. It focuses on the West-Saxon dialect as this is best suited to beginners due to its uniformity in phonology and inflection, the fact it forms the basis of Anglo-Saxon grammar, and its prominence in the extant literature. Extracts have been selected from this literature to provide a sufficient basis, via the study of the easier to grasp later form of the dialect, to prepare the reader for the more difficult early West-Saxon dialect and further chronological study of the texts.