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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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