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recent linguistics, Roger Lass, Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion (Cambridge,
UK, 1994). For larger structures, see Bruce Mitchell, Old English Syntax (2 vols., Oxford, 1985)
and Mary Blockley, Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax: Where Clauses Begin (Urbana, IL,
2001). A major resource for the study of Old English is the Dictionary of Old English, in
progress at Toronto. The new dictionary will replace J.Bosworth, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary,
ed. T.N.Toller (Oxford, 1898), and Toller’s Supplement (Oxford, 1921). Among the associated
projects of the new dictionary are R.L.Venezky and Antonette di Paolo Healey, A Microflche
Concordance to Old English (Toronto, 1980) and R.L.Venezky and Sharon Butler, A Microfiche
Concordance to Old English: The High Frequency Words (Toronto, 1985). Separate from the
dictionary is A Thesaurus of Old English, ed. Jane Roberts and Christian Kay (2 vols., 2nd ed.,
Amsterdam, 2001). For both of these sources and other lexical studies, see Alfred
Bammesberger, ed., Problems of Old English Lexicography: Studies in Memory of Angus
Cameron (Regensburg, Germany, 1985). The main works on Old English etymology are
F.Holthausen, Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (2nd ed., Heidelberg, 1974) and
A.Bammesberger, Beiträge zu einem etymologischen Wörterbuch des Altenglischen
(Heidelberg, 1979). Other linguistic scholarship can be found listed in Matsuji Tajima, Old and
Middle English Language Studies: A Classified Bibliography, 1923–1985 (Amsterdam, 1988).
A literary reference that is also valuable for language study is Stanley B.Greenfield and Fred
C.Robinson, A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972
(Toronto, 1980); see also Stanley B.Greenfield and Daniel G.Calder, A New Critical History of
Old English Literature (New York, 1986) and Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, eds., The
Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (Cambridge, UK, 1991). Current
bibliographies of Anglo-Saxon studies appear annually in the Old English Newsletter and in
Anglo-Saxon England.