Colman Fran. Money Talks: Reconstructing Old English

De Gruyter Mouton, 1991. — 401 p. — (Trends in Linguistics). — ISBN 3110127415, 9783110127416.Foreword
Opening an account
The data and their uses
Some claims
Orthography and phonology
Onomastics
NumismaticsThe game of the name
Preamble
Etymological classification
Vocabulary
Combination of name-elements
By-names
Nationalities of name-elements
A synchronic account of an Old English onomatic system
Inflectional morphology
Name-changes
Paronomasia
Person, place or thing?: Rose is not a roseThe names and their etymologies
Hidden talents
The coin types
Arguments for the chronology of types: internal evidence of the coins viii Contents
Arguments for the chronology of types: external evidence of hoards
Arguments for the chronology of types: external evidence of mints and moneyers
Summary of evidence for the type-sequence
The die is not cast
The epigraphic symbols and identification of errors
Explication of epigraphic errorsThe money talksStressed vowels
Reflexes of Proto-Germanic stressed vowels represented on the coins
Main vowels of second elements
Vowels of unstressed syllables
Conclusions about developments of unstressed vowels
Consonants
Consonants in simplex names and in protothemes of non-simplex names
Consonants of second elements
That'll do nicely
Stressed vowels
Root vowels in second elements of non-simplex names
Unstressed vowels
Consonants
The current account
Appendix: A catalogue of moneyers' names on coins of Edward the Confessor
NotesIndex of moneyers' name-elements
Index of subjects