Otto Jespersen

A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

Volume 1, Sounds and Spellings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book was first published in 1954.

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780415860222
• ISBN-10: 0415860229
• Artikelnr.: 37312639

Autorenporträt

Otto Jespersen

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The basis. Consonants 3. The basis. Vowels and dipthongs
4. The basis . Quantity 5. Stress 6. The earliest changes 7. Early changes
in consonant-groups 8. The great vowel-shift 9. Unstressed vowels 10. Loss
of consonants and rise of 11. Seventeenth century vowel changes 12.
Eighteenth century changes 13. Present English sounds. Consonants 14.
Present English sounds. Vowels 15. Conclusion