Description
Classroom textbook of examples for syntactical analysis in English language history, with texts reproduced in color manuscript, original-language transcriptions, and modern translations, plus commentary on significant features of language and presentation for placing the date, dialect, and register of the samples as well as with their places in the development of English. Chapter 5.2 examines Astro 1.1-5 from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS English 920.