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Author Colman, Fran, 1949-

Title Money talks : reconstructing Old English / by Fran Colman.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1992.
©1991

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 391 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 56
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 56.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-381)-and indexes.
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Contents ""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""
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Subject English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Etymology -- Names.
English language -- Old English -- Etymology -- Names.
English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Phonology.
English language -- Old English -- Phonology.
Names, Personal -- Old English.
Names, Personal -- Old English.
Numismatics -- England.
Numismatics.
England.
Coins, Anglo-Saxon.
Coins, Anglo-Saxon.
Anglo-Saxons.
Anglo-Saxons.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Colman, Fran, 1949- Money talks. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1992, ©1991 (DLC) 91034452
ISBN 3110883538 (electronic book)
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9783110883534
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