A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles
Volume 1, Sounds and Spellings
By Otto Jespersen
Published October 16th 2006 by Routledge – 512 pages
Series: Otto Jespersen
Description
This book was first published in 1954.
Contents
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
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Name: A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 1, Sounds and Spellings (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: By Otto Jespersen. This book was first published in 1954.
Categories: Grammar, Phonology, Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics