Historical Outlines from Sound to Text

Historical Outlines from Sound to Text
Author: Laurel Brinton
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110525283

The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional linguistic areas – phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics – and chapters on prosody, idioms, fixed expressions, onomastics, orthography, register, and standardization, among others.