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This book is the first since 1897 to describe 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 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 will consider the development of Proto-Germanic into Old English. Subsequent volumes will describe the attested history of English from the Old English period to the present.

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This is a highly welcome and useful book for scholars and advanced students of comparative Indo-European and Germanic linguistics and the history of English... I await with anticipation the second volume... David Stifter, Linguistlist

This is a highly welcome and useful book for scholars and advanced students of comparative Indo-European and Germanic linguistics and the history of English... I await with anticipation the second volume... * David Stifter, Linguistlist *

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Don Ringe is Kahn Endowed Term Professor in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of numerous publications on comparative Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics, and computational cladistics, including On the Chronology of Sound Changes in Tocharian.

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