Historical Phonology of English [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Minkova Donka
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| Titolo: |
Historical Phonology of English [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (441 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 421.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language -- Phonology, Historical |
| English language - Phonology, Historical | |
| English | |
| Languages & Literatures | |
| English Language | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | COVER; Coypright; 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. PDEalternations 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 later9 The evolution of the English stress system; 10 Early English verse forms: from Cædmon to Chaucer; Bibliography; Word Index; Names Index; Subject Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A thorough and fascinating exploration of the evolution of English' phonological structure, this book traces the history of individual sounds and their representation through Old, Middle, Early Modern and Present Day English. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book covers the sounds of English, consonantal histories, Middle English dialects, vowel quality and quantity in Early Modern English, the English stress system and Early English verse forms to demonstrate how the present form of the language is indebted to its past. Key Features: <ul><li>Places linguistic findings into |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Historical Phonology of English |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-3469-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810144003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced