From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variation Across Time, Volumen4University of Ottawa Press, 1992 - 218 páginas A fascinating, visual volume which traces the development of the language from the dialects of Old English, through Middle and Early Modern English to the establishment of Standard English in the eighteenth century, with a postscript on the language of today. The core of the book is a series of illustrative texts and facsimiles, which descriptive analyses and assignments for students. The texts include chronicles, letters, diaries, literary extracts and contemporary descriptions of the language at different periods. The focus of the study is on vocabulary, meaning, pronunciation, spelling and syntax, set against the historical, social and political background which some of the texts themselves illustrate. This book is firmly based upon linguistic description, and the commentaries form a series of case studies from which some understanding of the principles of language variation and change can be obtained--from back cover. |
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... author . Many copies of popular books , like Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales , for example , have survived , although ... authors from the late fifteenth century 43 3 From Old English to Middle English 1 The evidence for linguistic change.
... author . Many copies of popular books , like Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales , for example , have survived , although ... authors from the late fifteenth century 43 3 From Old English to Middle English 1 The evidence for linguistic change.
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... authors , and the practice of those , who , by their rank , education , and way of life , have had the best opportunities to know men and manners , and domeftick and foreign litera- ture , ought undoubtedly to give the law . Now it is ...
... authors , and the practice of those , who , by their rank , education , and way of life , have had the best opportunities to know men and manners , and domeftick and foreign litera- ture , ought undoubtedly to give the law . Now it is ...
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... authors like Milton , Dryden and Pope . He described other varieties of usage only in order to condemn them . The following text , which is an extract from the preface , typifies this particular attitude to language use . What people ...
... authors like Milton , Dryden and Pope . He described other varieties of usage only in order to condemn them . The following text , which is an extract from the preface , typifies this particular attitude to language use . What people ...
Términos y frases comunes
3rd person accent Activity Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Bislama called Canterbury Tales changes Chapter Chaucer's consonant cynegils Danelaw described dictionary diphthong Dorothy Dorothy Osborne East Midlands eighteenth century England English language English today evidence example extract facsimile following text fourteenth century French George Fox grammarians hath haue inflections John Dryden John Hart's King land Latin letter long vowels longage Lord maner manuscripts Margery Kempe mark meaning Middle English Midlands dialect Northern nouns OE word Peterborough Chronicle phrase Piers Plowman plural present-day printed pronouns pronunciation rhyme Section seventeenth century Sir Thomas sixteenth century sound speech speke spelt spoken Standard English standard language style suffixes syllables tense Text Commentary Book thee ther things thou translation variety verb verse vocabulary and grammar Vowel Shift vulgar wæs West Saxon William Temple wolde Word Book writing written þat