<< The>> development of old english Don Ringe and Ann Taylor

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ringe, Don, Jr., 1954- Author.

Taylor, Ann., Author.

Series:

Linguistic History of English

<<A>> linguistic history of english ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--History.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 614 Seiten) Illustrationen

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford Oxford University Press 2014

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The second volume in 'A Linguistic History of English', this title describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. It is an internal history of the structure of English that combines traditional historical linguistics, modern syntactic theory, the study of languages in contact, and the variationist approach to language change.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""The Development of Old English""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Other conventions""; ""Phonology and morphology chapters""; ""Syntax chapters""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1 The state of early Old English""; ""1.1.1 The system of surface-contrastive sounds""; ""1.1.2 Morphosyntactic categories and their morphological expression""; ""1.2 Attestation of the dialects of OE""; ""1.3 Early OE documents""; ""2. The development and diversification of Northwest Germanic""; ""2.1 Northwest Germanic sound changes""

""2.1.1 Sound changes narrowly datable to Proto-Northwest Germanic""""2.1.2 Sound changes partly shared with Gothic""; ""2.2 Proto-Northwest Germanic morphological innovations""; ""2.3 Parallel developments in Northwest Germanic""; ""2.3.1 Post-PNWGmc sound changes""; ""2.3.1 (i) Widely shared vowel shifts""; ""2.3.1 (ii) Dialectally and lexically restricted vowel shifts""; ""2.3.2 Post-PNWGmc morphological changes""; ""3. The development and diversification of West Germanic""; ""3.1 Proto-West Germanic sound changes""; ""3.1.1 Changes of coronal consonants""

""3.1.2 Changes of final-syllable vocalics""""3.1.3 The resolution of labiovelars and gemination""; ""3.1.4 Further Auslautgesetze""; ""3.1.5 Minor sound changes""; ""3.2 Proto-West Germanic morphological innovations""; ""3.2.1 Changes in verb inflection""; ""3.2.2 Changes in nominal inflection""; ""3.3 Parallel developments in West Germanic""; ""3.3.1 Post-PWGmc sound changes""; ""3.3.2 Post-PWGmc morphological changes""; ""3.4 Relative chronology of sound changes""; ""4. A grammatical sketch of Proto-West Germanic""; ""4.1 Proto-West Germanic phonology""

""4.2 Proto-West Germanic morphology""""4.2.1 PWGmc verb inflection""; ""4.2.2 PWGmc noun inflection""; ""4.2.3 PWGmc adjective inflection""; ""4.2.4 PWGmc numeral inflection""; ""4.2.5 PWGmc pronominal inflection""; ""4.3 The Proto-West Germanic lexicon""; ""4.3.1 Lexemes unique to West Germanic""; ""4.3.2 Meanings unique to West Germanic""; ""4.3.3 West Germanic innovations in derivational morphology""; ""4.3.3 (i) West Germanic verb-forming suffixes""; ""4.3.3 (ii) West Germanic noun-forming suffixes""; ""4.3.4 Loanwords in Proto-West Germanic""; ""5. The northern West Germanic dialects""

""5.1 Northern West Germanic sound changes""""5.1.1 Two changes fully shared by Old Saxon""; ""5.1.2 Nasalization, fronting, and related changes""; ""5.1.3 Other northern WGmc sound changes""; ""5.2 Northern West Germanic morphological innovations""; ""5.3 Some northern West Germanic lexical innovations""; ""6. The separate prehistory of Old English: sound changes""; ""6.1 Fronting of low vowels and the development of diphthongs""; ""6.1.1 The distribution of the outcomes of fronting""; ""6.1.2 Tensing of diphthong nuclei and subsequent developments""; ""6.2 Breaking and related changes""

""6.2.1 Breaking before *h""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191019425

9780199207848

0-19-177976-8

0-19-101942-9

OCLC:

894509634