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| Preface | |
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| Conventions, symbols and abbreviations | |
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| Introduction and caveats: the notion 'Old English' | |
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| A note on handbooks | |
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| Historical prelude | |
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| Background and origins | |
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| History in linguistic description | |
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| Indo-European and Germanic | |
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| The attestation of Germanic | |
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| Classification of the Germanic languages | |
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| Indo-European to Proto-Germanic to West Germanic | |
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| Germanic: an innovation cluster | |
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| Formation of the PGmc vowel system | |
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| The IE consonants: Grimm's Law | |
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| The Accent Shift and Verner's Law | |
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| Recapitulation: PGmc phonological systems | |
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| Some further remarks on PGmc phonology | |
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| Features of Northwest Germanic | |
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| West Germanic | |
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| Old English Phonology | |
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| Evolution of Old English phonology: the major early sound changes | |
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| Sound change and linguistic structure | |
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| West Germanic Gemination | |
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| Pre-nasal vowels in Ingvaeonic and Anglo-Frisian | |
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| West Germanic */[alpha]:/ and */[alpha]i/ in Ingvaeonic | |
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| Anglo-Frisian Brightening, Restoration of [alpha] and the /ae/:/[alpha]/ opposition | |
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| Diphthongs old and new: Breaking and related processes | |
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| 'Long' and 'short' diphthongs | |
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| Breaking, retraction and Diphthong Height Harmony | |
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| Back umlaut | |
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| Morphophonemic effects of diphthongization | |
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| Palatalization | |
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| I-umlaut | |
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| From allophonic rule to phonemic contrast | |
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| I-umlaut in detail | |
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| I-umlaut and Old English morphology | |
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| The fricatives: voicing, devoicing, hardening and deletion | |
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| OE /f, [theta], s/ | |
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| The velars | |
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| Fricative hardening and its consequences | |
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| Appendix: 'Palatal Diphthongization' | |
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| Suprasegmentals | |
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| Suprasegmentals | |
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| Germanic stress and Old English stress | |
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| Stress rules and 'degrees of stress' | |
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| The Germanic Stress Rule | |
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| Old English stress | |
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| Major developments in weak syllables | |
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| Final reduction and loss | |
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| High Vowel Deletion and medial syncope | |
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| Morphophonemic intermezzo | |
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| Ablaut, the laryngeals and the IE root | |
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| The basic alternations | |
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| The conditioning of ablaut | |
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| The laryngeals: 'Irregular' ablaut regularized and a new look for IE root-structure | |
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| Roots and extensions | |
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| Zero-grade revisited | |
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| Appendix: consonantal alternations | |
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| Morphology, lexis and syntax | |
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| Inflectional morphology, I: nouns, pronous, determiners and adjectives | |
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| The noun | |
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| Root vs. stem, thematic vs. athematic | |
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| IE noun-inflection: gender, number, case | |
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| The major noun classes | |
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| A note in retrospect | |
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| Pronouns and determiners | |
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| Personal pronouns | |
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| 'Definite article'/demonstrative | |
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| Interrogative pronouns | |
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| The adjective | |
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| The basic inflections | |
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| Comparison | |
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| Inflectional morphology, II: The verb | |
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| Historical preliminaries | |
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| The strong verb | |
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| Ablaut in the strong verb, classes I-V | |
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| The strong verb, classes VI-VII | |
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| The strong past participle | |
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| Infinitive and present participle (strong and weak) | |
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| The weak verb | |
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| The weak preterite suffix and past participle | |
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| The weak verb classes | |
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| Preterite presents and minor verb types | |
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| Preterite presents | |
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| Athematic root verbs and 'to be' | |
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| Person/number/mood inflection | |
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| The strong verb | |
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| The weak verb: present system | |
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| The weak verb: preterite | |
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| Vocabulary and word-formation | |
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| The PGmc lexicon | |
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| Loans in Old English | |
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| Latin | |
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| Scandinavian | |
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| Celtic and French | |
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| Word-formation | |
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| Typology and productivity | |
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| Compounding | |
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| Derivation | |
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| Names, adverbs and numerals | |
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| Proper names | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Numerals | |
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| Topics in OE historical syntax: word-order and case | |
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| Reconstructed syntax? | |
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| Basic constituent order | |
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| The clausal brace and verb-second order | |
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| The syntax of the OE cases in historical perspective | |
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| Overview: form, function and syncretism | |
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| Historical persistence or natural semantics? IE remains in OE case syntax | |
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| Historical postlude | |
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| The dissolution of Old English | |
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| Stasis, flux, transition | |
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| Monophthongization and merger | |
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| The new diphthongs | |
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| Quantity adjustment | |
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| Weak vowel collapse and the new morphology | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index of names | |
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| Subject index | |
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| Index of Old English words and affixes | |