Approaches to English Historical Linguistics: An Anthology

Aktionsart allomorphs allophones analysis appears assume assumption borrowing century contrast diachronic dialects digraph diphthongs distinction earlier early England evidence example fact forms French fricatives Frisian gemination Germanic grammar grapheme historical i-mutation indicate inflectional instances Kentish later Latin lengthening linguistic loanwords London long consonants long vowel Luick means metrical Middle English Midland Modern English monophthongal morpheme nasal native words noun occur Old English Old Norse open syllable original orthography palatal pattern phonaesthetic phonemic change phonemic split phonological plural position preterit probably problem pronoun pronunciation proparoxytone reflexes result rhymes rime rules Saxon scribe sequence Shakespeare shift short vowel shortened sound change speakers speech spelling spirant spoken language standard stress structure substitution suffix symbols synchronic tense texts thee theory thou variants velar verbs Vespasian Vowel Shift written language