Orrin W. Robinson (1) (1947–)
Auteur de Old English and Its Closest Relatives
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Orrin W. Robinson, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Orrin W. Robinson
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1947-06-01
- Sexe
- male
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Études
- Stanford University (BA)
Cornell University (PhD)
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- Œuvres
- 4
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 298
- Popularité
- #78,715
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
Of course, there are times when certain non-English comparisons were most appropriate — for example, his frequent recourse to Gothic or Old Norse is to be expected given their antiquity or positions as the only East and North Germanic languages in the book, respectively — but there were many instances where I felt the author ignored pointing out interesting connections between a given language and Old English, instead choosing to make that connection with, say, Old High German or Old Saxon instead.
As my rating demonstrates, however, this hardly detracted from my opinion of the book. It was interesting, informative, engaging and well-written. I'm very interested in comparative and historical linguistics in general, though, so the author not following through with what I felt was an implication that Old English would be the main metric of comparison was not a problem for me. However, if you're a student of English and not particularly interested in Germanic linguistics generally, and are looking for a book focused on Old English and how its cousins are similar to it, this book may be overkill for your needs. Put another way, imagine that this book was actually titled "A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages," without any special reference to English. If you'd still be interested in such a book, then you should check this one out.… (plus d'informations)