Sound Change and the History of English
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 June 2007
- ISBN 9780199291953
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages214 pages
- Size 240x160x15 mm
- Weight 489 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book discusses the origins of a series of sound changes in English: it investigates their linguistic properties and social and cultural context to investigate why do sound changes happen when and where they do. Written with minimal use of jargon it will appeal to all serious students of English historical linguistics, from advanced undergraduates to researchers.
MoreLong description:
This book addresses the question: why do sound changes happen when and where they do? Jeremy Smith discusses the origins of a series of sound changes in English. He relates his arguments to larger questions about the nature of explanation in history and historical linguistics, and examines the interplay between sound change and social change. Drawing on the latest research in the linguistics and history he shows how insights in one field illuminate the other.
After the opening chapter describing the book's approach and a general theoretical framework for the study of sound-change, the author discusses problems of evidence and considers the nature of phonological processes. He then presents detailed investigations of major sound-changes from three transitional periods: first, when English emerged as a language distinct from the other West Germanic varieties; secondly, during the transition from Old to Middle English; and thirdly during the time when Middle English evolved into Early Modern English.
The book is written with minimal use of jargon and offers clear definitions of complex notions. It will appeal to all serious students of English historical linguistics, from advanced undergraduate to researcher.
...stimulating and challenging, surely a fine addition to the excellent literature on English sound change.
Table of Contents:
Notations and Conventions
On Explaining Sound-Change
On Evidence
Phonological Approaches and Processes
From Pre-English to Old English
From Old to Middle English
From Middle to Early Modern English
On the Historiography of Sound-Change
Appendix 1 The Principal Sound-Changes From Proto-Germanic to Early Modern English
Appendix 2 Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening of I, U
Suggestions for Further Reading
References
Thematic Index
