A Historical Phonology of English /

A Historical Phonology of English / / Donka Minkova.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Minkova, Donka,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced : ETELAA
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations and symbols
  • A note on the Companion to A Historical Phonology of English
  • 1 Periods in the history of English
  • 2 The sounds of English
  • 3 Discovering the earliest links: Indo- European – Germanic – Old English
  • 4 Consonantal histories: Old English
  • 5 Consonantal developments in the second millennium
  • 6 The vowels in Old English: spelling, pronunciation. PDE alternations traced back to OE
  • 7 The vowels in Middle English. Dialects. Spelling innovations. Vowel quality and quantity. PDE alternations traced back to ME
  • 8 Vowel quality and quantity in Early Modern English and later
  • 9 The evolution of the English stress system
  • 10 Early English verse forms: from Cædmon to Chaucer
  • Bibliography
  • Word Index
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index

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