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Introduction:The Time Periods of English | |
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Language Change | |
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Sources of Information on Language Change | |
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Linguistic Preliminaries | |
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The Sounds of English, and Symbols Used to Describe Them:Consonants | |
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Vowels | |
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Structure of The Book | |
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The Pre-History of English:Timeline of Events | |
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The Indo-European Period | |
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The Indo-Europeans and Linguistic Relatedness:The Beginnings | |
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The Development of Historical Linguistics | |
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Genetic Relatedness | |
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Linguistic Developments | |
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The Indo-European Language Family:Family Tree Relationships | |
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The Indo-European Family | |
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Indo-Iranian | |
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Indic | |
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Iranian | |
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Armenian | |
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Albanian | |
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Balto-Slavonic | |
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Slavonic | |
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Baltic | |
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Hellenic | |
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Italic | |
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Celtic | |
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Brythonic | |
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Goidelic | |
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Germanic | |
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East Germanic | |
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North Germanic | |
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West Germanic | |
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Low Germanic | |
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High Germanic | |
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Yiddish | |
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From Indo-European to Germanic:Prosody | |
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The Consonant System: Sound Shifts | |
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Grimm''s Law | |
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Verner''s Law | |
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The Second Consonant Shift | |
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Possible Explanations For The High German (Second) Sound Shift | |
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The Vowel System | |
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Morphology | |
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Syntax | |
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Lexicon | |
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Semantics | |
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Indo-European/Germanic Texts | |
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Neogrammarians, Structuralists and Contemporary Linguistic Models | |
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Typological Classification:Universals | |
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Morphological Typology | |
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Sociolinguistic Focus | |
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The Indo-European Tribes and The Spread of Language | |
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Language Contact and Language Change: Archaeological Linguistics:Language Contact | |
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Archaeological Linguistics | |
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Old English 450-1100:Timeline of Events | |
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The Old English Period | |
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Social and Political History:Britain Before The English | |
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The Anglo-Saxon Invasions | |
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Anglo-Saaxon Influence | |
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Scandinavian Influence | |
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Linguistic Developments: The Sounds, Structure and Typology of Old English:The Structure of Old English | |
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Oe Consonants | |
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Vowels: From Germanic to Old English | |
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Old English Vowels | |
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Old English Gender | |
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Inflection In Old English | |
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The Noun | |
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The Adjective | |
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Oe Personal Pronouns | |
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The Old English Verb | |
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Strong Verbs | |
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Weak Verbs | |
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Irregular Verbs | |
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Old English Syntax | |
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The Use of The Cases | |
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Word Order | |
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Old English Vocabulary | |
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Word Formation | |
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Linguistic/Literary Achievements | |
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Texts | |
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Prose | |
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Poetry | |
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The Dialects of Old English | |
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Sociolinguistic Focus:Language Contact | |
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Latin and Celtic | |
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The Scandinavians | |
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The Character of Scandinavian Loan Words | |
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Middle English:Timeline of Events | |
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The Middle English Period | |
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Social and Political History | |
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Politcal History : The Norman Conquest to Edward I | |
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Social History | |
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The Establishment of Towns and Burghs and The Beginnings of Social Stratification | |
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Linguistic Developments: Middle English Sounds and Structure, With Particular Emphasis on The Breakdown of The Inflectional System and Its Linguistic Typological Implications:Major Changes to The Sound System | |
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The Consonants | |
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Consonant Changes From Old to Middle English | |
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The Vowels In Stressed Syllables | |
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Vowels In Unstressed Syllables | |
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Lengthening and Shortening | |
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Summary Table of Vowel Changes From Old to Middle English | |
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The Formation of Middle English Diphthongs | |
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Major Morphological Changes From Old to Middle English | |
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Loss of Inflections | |
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Other Changes In The Morphological System | |
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Verbs | |
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Middle English Syntax | |
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The Lexicon: Loan Words From French | |
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Two French Sources | |
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Middle English Dialects:Linguistic/Literary Achievements | |
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Middle English Literature | |
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Language | |
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Genre | |
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Sociolinguistic Focus: Social Stratification, Multilingualism and Dialect Variation: Language Contact | |
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The Myth of Middle English Creolisation:English Re-established | |
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Language and The Rise of The Middle Class | |
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The Development of Standard English | |
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The Evolution of Me ''Standard'' English | |
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The Question of Middle English Creolisation: Myth? | |
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Definitions | |
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Pidgins and Creoles In England? | |
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Thomason and Kaufman and The Arguments For and Against Creolisation In Middle English | |
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On The Sociolinguistic History of /H/-Dropping In English | |
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Conclusion | |
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Early Modern English:Timeline of Events | |
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The Early Modern English Period | |
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Social and Political History:Historical and Social Background | |
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Internal Stability and Colonial Expansion | |
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Linguistic Developments: The Variable Character of Early Modern English:Phonolgy | |
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Consonants | |
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Vowels | |
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The Great Vowel Shift | |
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