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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 47
Página x
... give students at least some idea of the development of spelling and writing conventions . Literary texts are generally printed with modern spelling and punctuation , and although editions of Old and Middle English retain the older ...
... give students at least some idea of the development of spelling and writing conventions . Literary texts are generally printed with modern spelling and punctuation , and although editions of Old and Middle English retain the older ...
Página 138
... Give me your hand , l'le lead you to fome biding . Glon . Hearty thanks : The bounty , and the benizon of Heaven To boot , and boot . Enter Steward . Stew . A proclaim'd prize : moft happy : That eyelefs head of thine , was first fram'd ...
... Give me your hand , l'le lead you to fome biding . Glon . Hearty thanks : The bounty , and the benizon of Heaven To boot , and boot . Enter Steward . Stew . A proclaim'd prize : moft happy : That eyelefs head of thine , was first fram'd ...
Página 200
... give them . they give them a sentence and there are four a . there are three an- swers they can givel either it's acceptablel it's not acceptable mml it's marginall . or you know it's somewhere between and then . we they when they mark ...
... give them . they give them a sentence and there are four a . there are three an- swers they can givel either it's acceptablel it's not acceptable mml it's marginall . or you know it's somewhere between and then . we they when they mark ...
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