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Origins and Development of the English Language

ISBN: 9780155001688 | 015500168X
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 1/1/1993

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Table of Contents
Prefacev
Language and Languages: An Introduction
1(24)
Why Study the History of English?
2(1)
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A Definition of Language
3(1)
Language as System
3(4)
Language Signs
7(1)
Language as Speech
8(3)
Language as Convention
11(6)
Language as Human
17(4)
Language as Communication
21(4)
The Sounds of Current English
25(17)
The Organs of Speech
25(1)
The Consonants of English
26(4)
The Vowels of English
30(4)
Stress
34(1)
Kinds of Sound Change
35(4)
The Phoneme
39(3)
Letters and Sounds: A Brief History of Writing
42(19)
Ideographic and Syllabic Writing
42(1)
From Semitic Writing to Greek Alphabet
43(1)
The Greek Vowel and Consonant Symbols
44(1)
The Romans Adopt the Greek Alphabet
45(1)
Later Developments of the Roman and Greek Alphabets
46(1)
The Use of Digraphs
47(1)
Additional Symbols
48(1)
The Germanic Runes
48(1)
The History of English Writing
49(1)
The Spelling of English Consonant Sounds
50(3)
The Spelling of English Vowel Sounds
53(4)
Spelling Pronunciations and Pronunciation Spellings
57(2)
Writing and History
59(2)
The Backgrounds of English
61(34)
Language Typology and Language Families
61(2)
The Non-Indo-European Languages
63(3)
The Main Divisions of the Indo-European Group
66(10)
Cognate Words in the Indo-European Languages
76(1)
Inflection in the Indo-European Languages
77(4)
Word Order in the Indo-European Languages
81(2)
Indo-European Culture
83(1)
The Indo-European Homeland
83(1)
The Major Changes from Indo-European to Germanic
84(3)
Grimm's Law
87(3)
Verner's Law
90(1)
West Germanic Languages
91(4)
The Old English Period (449--1100)
95(39)
The History of the Anglo-Saxons
95(6)
The Old English Dialects
101(1)
The Pronunciation and Spelling of Old English
102(5)
The Vocabulary of Old English
107(1)
Inflection in Old English
108(1)
Nouns
109(5)
Demonstratives
114(1)
Adjectives
114(2)
Adverbs
116(1)
Personal Pronouns
117(1)
Interrogative and Relative Pronouns
118(1)
Verbs
119(9)
Syntax
128(2)
Old English Illustrated
130(2)
The English Golden Age
132(2)
The Middle English Period (1100--1500)
134(31)
The Background of the Norman Conquest
134(1)
The Decline of French in England
135(1)
The Linguistic Influence of the Conquest
136(1)
Middle English Spelling
137(3)
The Rise of a London Standard
140(3)
Changes in Pronunciation
143(8)
Changes in Grammar
151(2)
The Inflection of Nouns
153(2)
Pronouns
155(3)
Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative Forms
158(1)
Verbs
158(4)
Word Order
162(1)
Middle English Further Illustrated
163(2)
The Modern English Period to 1800: Sounds and Spellings
165(17)
A Specimen of English in 1525
165(2)
The Orthography of Early Modern English
167(3)
The Great Vowel Shift
170(3)
Other Vowels
173(2)
The Early Modern English Consonants
175(3)
Quantitative Changes
178(1)
Stress
178(1)
Evidence for Early Modern Pronunciation
179(1)
A Sample of Early Modern Pronunciation
180(2)
The Modern English Period to 1800: Forms and Syntax
182(30)
Nouns
182(4)
Adjectives and Adverbs
186(1)
Pronouns
187(7)
Verbs
194(11)
Prepositions
205(1)
The Study of Language
206(4)
Early Modern English Illustrated
210(2)
Recent British and American English
212(25)
Conservatism and Innovation in American English
213(2)
National Differences in Word Choice
215(2)
American Infiltration of the British Word Stock
217(2)
Syntactical and Morphological Differences
219(2)
British and American Purism
221(1)
National Differences in Pronunciation
222(4)
British and American Spelling
226(2)
Variation within American English
228(5)
World English
233(3)
The Essential Oneness of All English
236(1)
Words and Meanings
237(21)
Semantics
238(1)
Variable and Vague Meanings
238(1)
Etymology and Meaning
239(1)
How Meaning Changes
240(1)
Generalization and Specialization
241(1)
Transfer of Meaning
242(3)
Pejoration and Amelioration
245(1)
Taboo and Euphemism
246(3)
The Fate of Intensifying Words
249(2)
Some Circumstances of Semantic Change
251(5)
Semantic Change Is Inevitable
256(2)
New Words from Old
258(28)
Creating Words
258(3)
Combining Words: Compounding
261(5)
Combining Words: Affixing
266(6)
Shortening Words
272(5)
Blending Words
277(4)
Shifting Words to New Uses
281(3)
Sources of New Words
284(2)
Foreign Elements in the English Word Stock
286(27)
Latin Loanwords
286(5)
Greek Loanwords
291(1)
Celtic Loanwords
292(1)
Scandinavian Loanwords
293(2)
French Loanwords
295(4)
Spanish and Portuguese Loanwords
299(2)
Italian Loanwords
301(1)
German Loanwords
302(3)
Loanwords from the East
305(3)
Other Sources
308(2)
The Sources of Recent Loanwords
310(1)
English Remains English
311(2)
Selected Bibliography313(25)
Glossary--Index of Terms338(23)
Index of Modern English Words and Affixes361

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