Sound change and the history of English / Jeremy J. Smith.
Sound change and the history of English / Jeremy J. Smith.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N421.5/35
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. On explaining sound change -- 2. On evidence -- 3. Phonological approaches and processes -- 4. From pre-English to old English -- 5. From old to middle English -- 6. From middle to early modern English -- 7. On the historiography of sound change -- App. 1. The principal sound changes from proto-G...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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England
Date Published
2007.
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"This book addresses the question: why do sound changes happen when and where they do? Jeremy Smith discusses the origins of a series of sound changes in English. He relates his arguments to larger questions about the nature of explanation in history and historical linguistics, and examines the interplay between sound change and social change. Draw...
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Sound change and the history of English / Jeremy J. Smith.
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Oxford linguistics.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-188) and index.
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Other version (online)
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N421.5/35
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ISBN
0199291950 (alk. paper)
9780199291953 (alk. paper)
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421.5
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991023333489702626
