1st Edition
A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles Volume 1, Sounds and Spellings
By Otto Jespersen
Copyright 1954
500 Pages
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Routledge
512 Pages
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Routledge
1024 Pages
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Routledge
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This book was first published in 1954.
1. Introduction
2. The basis. Consonants
3. The basis. Vowels and dipthongs
4. The basis . Quantity
5. Stress
6. The earliest changes
7. Early changes in consonant-groups
8. The great vowel-shift
9. Unstressed vowels
10. Loss of consonants and rise of
11. Seventeenth century vowel changes
12. Eighteenth century changes
13. Present English sounds. Consonants
14. Present English sounds. Vowels
15. Conclusion
Biography
Otto Jespersen
