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On early English pronunciation : with especial reference to Shakespere and Chaucer : containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with speech in England from the Anglosaxon period to the present day, preceded by a systematic notation of all spoken sounds by means of the ordinary printing types / by Alexander J. Ellis.
LIBRA - Special PE11 .E47 1869a v.1-5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellis, Alexander John, 1814-1890.
- Series:
- Chaucer Society, London. Publications. Second series ; no. 1, etc.
- Early English Text Society (Series). Extra series ; 2 etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- English language--Early modern, 1500-1700.
- English language.
- English language--Early modern.
- English language--Phonology.
- English language--Pronunciation.
- English language--Middle English, 1100-1500.
- English language--Middle English.
- Phonetic alphabet.
- English language--Dialects--Phonology.
- Physical Description:
- 5 volumes : 2 folded maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : pub. for the Philological Society by Asher & Co. ; and for the Early English Text Society and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co., 1869-89.
- Notes:
- Including a rearrangement of Prof. F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welsh, 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521.
- Issued jointly by the Philological Society, the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society; appearing as no.1,4-5,11,25 in 2d series of the Publications of the Chaucer Society, no.2,7,14,23,56, in extra series of the Publications of the Early English Text Society and without number in the Philological Society publications.
- Photocopy. Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Photoduplication Dept., 19 97. 28 cm.
- OCLC:
- 187470898
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