Sound Change and the History of English

Zusatztext ...stimulating and challenging, surely a fine addition to the excellent literature on English sound change. Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Smith is Professor of English Philology in the University of Glasgow. His publications include Essentials of Early English (second edition, 2005), An Introduction to Middle English (with Simon Horobin, 2002), and An Historical Study of English (1996). He is a contributor to The Oxford History of English edited by Lynda Mugglestone (2006). Klappentext Jeremy Smith looks at the origins of a series of sound changes in English and examines their linguistic properties and the social and cultural context in which they took place in order to investigate why do sound changes happen when and where they do. Zusammenfassung Jeremy Smith looks at the origins of a series of sound changes in English and examines their linguistic properties and the social and cultural context in which they took place in order to investigate why do sound changes happen when and where they do. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: On Explaining Sound Change 2: On Evidence 3: Phonological Approaches and Processes 4: From Pre-English to Old English 5: From Old to Middle English 6: From Middle to Early Modern English 7: On the Historiography of Sound Change Appendix Suggestions for Further Reading References Index

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Smith, Jeremy ( Smith, Jeremy J. Smith, Jeremy J. (University of Glasgow) Smith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2009
• EAN: 9780199563319
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956331-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics