A Historical Phonology of English / / Donka Minkova.
Charts the historical development of the English phonological systemGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748634682','ISBN:9780748634699','ISBN:9780748634975','ISBN:9780748677559','ISBN:9780748677542']);A thorough and fascinating exploration of the...
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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