First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period. It offers an in-depth study of the growth of vocabulary through literature and social interaction, bringing out the fact that it is chiefly words that foreign influence has affected — leaving sentence structure almost unaltered. Isolative and combinative changes in phonology, the accidence of nouns and plurals, pronouns and adverbs, and verbs are also examined in detail, along with a general overview of the features Middle English and a brief outline of each dialect's most striking characteristics.
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An Introduction to Middle English
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INDEX
The numbers given refer to paragraphs. A letter in parentheses thus (I)fange(n) means that the word may occur with or without it.
a, art., 69, 108
a, pron., 116
a, vowel, 19, 50, 51 (1) (2), 54, 76
ā, vowel, 6, 22 n. 28, 52, 53 (1), 54, 76, 137 (1) n. (9) n.
abbod, 50; abbodes, 93
ado, 27
æ, 19, 50, 51 (1), 54, 55 & (1), 58 (1), 65
ǣ, 28, 52, 53 (2) & n., 54, 55 & (2)
æcer, 79
ǣʒ,28
ǣʒwæðer, 124
ǣʒƿer, 124
æhta, 108
ælces, ælches, 103, 124
ǣniʒes, 103 n.; ǣniʒ, 124
ǣnne, 103
ǣrd, 73
ǣw, 25
āʒ, āʒen, aʒte, 137 (9)
āgenre, āgere, 103
āhwæðer, 124
ai, diph., 28; (W.G.) 53 (2) n., 62
āker, 79
āld, 73, 86 (3)
al, alle, 94, 96, 103, 122 (d)
alder, 103
ale, 55 (1)
alkin, 94
alther, 103
alther fairest, 103
am, 13...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- I. General Features of the Middle English Period
- II. Vocabulary. The Foreign Element in Middle English
- III. Phonology. A. Isolative Changes
- IV. B. Combinative Changes
- V. Accidence. Nouns and Adjectives
- VI. Pronouns and Adverbs
- VII. Verbs
- Index
- Map: Position of Middle English Dialects
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