A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 1, Sounds and Spellings

ISBN-13: 9780415860222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 500 str.

Otto Jespersen

Opis

This book was first published in 1954.

Spis treści

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

 

O autorze

Otto Jespersen