14.2366, Books: Historical Ling, Middle English: Rabade

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Subject: 14.2366, Books: Historical Ling, Middle English: Rabade

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Date:  Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:05:19 +0000
From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de
Subject:  Handbook of Middle English: Rabade

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Date:  Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:05:19 +0000
From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de
Subject:  Handbook of Middle English: Rabade

Title: Handbook of Middle English
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in English Linguistics 05

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           www.lincom-europa.com		

Author: Luis Iglesias Rábade, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Paperback: ISBN: ISBN389586756X, Pages: 630, Price: 74 EURO

Abstract:

This volume is intended to provide undergraduate and postgraduate
students with a comprehensive handbook of Middle English. The book
begins with a sociolinguistic study of post-Conquest England. Then the
volume presents a detailed description of Middle English grammar
divided into four parts. The first part is dedicated to morphology,
providing students with forms and uses of the traditional parts of
speech. The second part of the volume is devoted to a description of
the phonology, proposing a historical development of the OE phonemes
(and graphemes) until Present Day English. Students will find the
basic rules of the phonological developments accompanied by the most
common spellings for the four periods (Old English, Middle English,
Early Modern English and Present Day English) and subperiods of the
history of the English language. In the third part the volume presents
a description of the grammatical categories and functions on Middle
English syntactic units. All parts and sections of the book are
provided with a wide range of examples, with modern English
translations to facilitate a better understanding of Middle English
grammar. The fourth part of the volume includes some extracts of early
Middle English texts. Each of them is provided with its own
glossary. It is particularly easy for students to identify the meaning
of a word, because not only are all words included in the glossary,
but also a specific meaning is provided for each word in each of its
occurrences. (for more information, please see the LINCOM webshop :
lincom.at).

CONTENTS
Abbreviations 17
The Middle English period  31
The Middle English dialects  31
English and Anglo-Norman status in the Middle English period: a
 historical sociolinguistic approach 35

PART I. MORPHOLOGY
CHAPTER I (Section 1). NOUN PHRASE: DETERMINERS  51
A. The simple demonstrative pronouns (definite article) 51
B. The Compound demonstrative pronouns  58
C. Other demonstratives 61
D. Numeral  61
E. Indefinite adjectives and pronouns  65
F. Possessive forms  70
CHAPTER II (Section 2). NOUN PHRASE: HEAD  75
A. Pronouns  75
B. The noun 85
C. Relative pronouns  100
D. Interrogative pronouns  103
CHAPTER III (Section 3). ADJECTIVAL PHRASE. HEAD  105
1. Forms105
2. Comparison  108
CHAPTER IV (Section 4). VERBAL PHRASE: HEAD  111
PART II. PHONOLOGY
CHAPTER V (Section 1). MIDDLE ENGLISH PHONEMES AND
SPELLINGS 151
CHAPTER VI (Section 2). VOWELS . 157
CHAPTER VII (Section 3). THE DIPHTHONGS  217
CHAPTER VIII (Section 4). THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOWELS IN
UNACCENTED SYLLABLES  267
A. From OE to ME  267
B. From ME to PE  278
CHAPTER IX (Section 5). CONSONANTS  281
A. Consonants  281
B. Consonants in detail  288
CHAPTER X (Section 6). SCANDINAVIAN INFLUENCE ON
PHONOLOGY AND SPELLING  307
PART III. SYNTAX
CHAPTER XI (Section 1). NOTIONS AND TOOLS FOR SYNTACTIC
ANALYSIS 321
CHAPTER XII (Section 2). MORPHEMES AND WORDS . 329
CHAPTER XIII (Section 3). NOUN PHRASE . 337
CHAPTER XIV (Section 4). ADJECTIVAL PHRASE  353
CHAPTER XV (Section 5). VERBAL PHRASE . 357
CHAPTER XVI (Section 6). PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE  377
CHAPTER XVII (Section 7). ADVERBIAL PHRASE  385
CHAPTER XVIII (Section 8). KERNEL CLAUSES  389
CHAPTER XIX (Section 9). INTERROGATIVE AND NEGATIVE
CLAUSES 425
CHAPTER XX. (Section 10). GRAMMATICAL UNITS  433
CHAPTER XXI (Section 11) MULTIPLE CLAUSE AND COMPLEX
CLAUSE 441
CHAPTER XXI (Section 12). CLAUSES AND SENTENCES  455
CHAPTER XXIII (Section 13). PARATACTIC STRUCTURES  497
PART IV. PROSE AND VERSE TEXTS
Glossary  614
Bibliography 623

(please see the full abstract in our webshop: lincom.at)

Lingfield(s):  Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s):  Middle English (Language Code: XENM)

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

     See this book announcement on our website:
     http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=7149.

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