Research Catalog

Title

Readings for the history of the English language [by] Charles T. Scott [and] Jon L. Erickson.

Author

Scott, Charles T.

Publication

Boston, Allyn and Bacon [1968]

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Details

Additional Authors

Erickson, Jon L.

Description

ix, 417 pages illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

• English language > History
• English language
• Englisch
• Sozialgeschichte
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Englisch

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part 1. Linguistics and the historical perspective in language -- The linguistic approach / Joseph H. Greenberg -- Description of language design / Martin Joos -- Genetic relationship among languages / Joseph H. Greenberg -- Family tree, wave theory, and dialectology / Ernst Pulgram -- The biological model and historical linguistics / Robert D. Stevick -- A definition of proto-Germanic: A study in the chronological delimitation of languages / W.P. Lehmann -- Part 2. Phonetics, phonemics, and diachronic phonology -- Phonetic and phonemic change / Archibald A. Hill -- Phonemics and phonics in historical phonology / Hans Kurath -- The evidence for phonemic changes / Herbert Penzl -- A note on Old High German umlaut / W. Freeman Twaddell -- The conservatism of Germanic phonology / W.P. Lehmann -- Part 3. The phonology of Old English: A structural sketch / Robert P. Stockwell -- On the syllabic phonemes of Old English / Sherman M. Kuhn -- The obstruent system of Old English / William G. Moulton -- The phonemic split of Germanic k in Old English / Herbert Penzl -- The loss of long consonants and the rise of voiced fricatives in Middle English / Hans Kurath -- The middle English "Long Close" and "Long Open" mid vowels ; On the utility of an overall pattern in historical English phonology / Robert P. Stockwell -- Part 4. Grammatical change in the history of English -- A reclassification of the Old English strong verbs / Samuel R. Levin -- Earliest morphological changes in Middle English / Samuel Moore -- The morphemic evolution of Middle English she / Robert D. Stevick -- The conflict of homonyms in English / Robert J. Menner -- Word order of noun modifiers in Old English prose / Charles R. Carlton -- On the development of the structural use of word-order in Modern English / Charles C. Fries -- Diachronic syntax and generative grammar / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Part 5. Linguistic variation and language contact -- Grease and greasy: A study of geographical variation / E. Bagby Atwood -- Principle and subsidiary dialect areas in the North-Central states / Albert H. Marckwardt -- The analysis of linguistic borrowing / Einar Haugen --The social motivation of a sound change / William Labov -- The genesis of the Old English dialects: A new hypothesis / David DeCamp -- Old English sound-changes reconsidered in relation to scribal tradition and practice / Marjorie Daunt.

LCCN

68020532

OCLC

• ocm00441510
• 441510
• SCSB-229254

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library