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Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521573177
Veröffentl:
2012
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Erscheinungsdatum:
15.03.2012
Seiten:
422
Autor:
Donka Minkova
Gewicht:
834 g
Format:
235x157x29 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Donka Minkova is Professor of English Language at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely in the fields of English and Germanic historical phonology and syntax, historical dialectology and English historical metrics. She is the author of The History of Final Vowels in English (1991) and of English Words: History and Structure (with Robert Stockwell, Cambridge University Press, 2001). She is also co-editor, with Robert Stockwell of Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective.
This 2003 study uses evidence from early English verse to determine when certain sound changes took place.
List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1. Social and linguistic setting of alliterative verse in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England; 2. Linguistic structures in English alliterative verse; 3. Segmental histories: velar palatalization; 4. Syllable structure; 5. ONSET and cluster alliteration in Old English: the case of sp-, st-, sk-; 6. ONSET and cluster alliteration in Middle English; 7. Verse evidence for cluster simplification in Middle English; References; Index of names; Subject index.