The History of Final Vowels in English :The Sound of Muting ( Topics in English Linguistics TiEL )

Publication subTitle :The Sound of Muting

Publication series :Topics in English Linguistics TiEL

Author: Donka Minkova  

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton‎

Publication year: 1991

E-ISBN: 9783110889512

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110127638

Subject: H311 Speech

Language: ENG

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Chapter

Preface

pp.:  1 – 9

1.3. Remarks on method

pp.:  14 – 15

1.4. Analytical procedures

pp.:  15 – 22

2.1. Choice of sources

pp.:  27 – 27

2.2. Lorenz Morsbach (1896): Mittelenglische Grammatik

pp.:  27 – 28

2.3. Karl Luick (1921–1940): Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache

pp.:  28 – 32

2.4. Richard Jordan: (1934/1968) Handbuch der mittelenglischen Grammatik

pp.:  32 – 35

2.5. Wilhelm Horn/Martin Lehnert (1954): Laut und Leben. Englische Lautgeschichte der neueren Zeit (1400–1950)

pp.:  35 – 36

2.7. Joseph Wright and E. M. Wright (1923): An Elementary Middle English Grammar

pp.:  36 – 37

2.6. Karl Brunner (1962): Die englische Sprache, ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung. Vols. I, II

pp.:  36 – 36

2.8. Fernand Mossé (1949): Manuel de l’anglais du moyen âge

pp.:  37 – 38

2.9. Jacek Fisiak (1970): A Short Grammar of Middle English

pp.:  38 – 39

2.10. Peter Erdmann (1972): Tiefenphonologische Lautgeschichte der englischen Vokale

pp.:  39 – 39

2.11. Summary

pp.:  39 – 40

Chapter 3. Textual evidence

pp.:  40 – 47

3.2. Types of evidence

pp.:  47 – 49

3.1. Principles and methods specific to the study of schwa loss in Middle English

pp.:  47 – 47

3.3. Graphically marked morpho-syntactic loss of -e

pp.:  49 – 57

3.4. Unetymological final -e

pp.:  57 – 67

3.5. Elision in hiatus

pp.:  67 – 74

3.6. Rhyme evidence

pp.:  74 – 81

3.7. Scribal errors, editorial corrections

pp.:  81 – 83

3.8. Graphically unmarked evidence

pp.:  83 – 87

Chapter 4. Phonological aspects of schwa loss

pp.:  87 – 99

4.1. The phonemic status of schwa in Middle English

pp.:  99 – 99

4.2. The Middle phonemic inventory

pp.:  99 – 103

4.3. Distribution

pp.:  103 – 116

4.4. Phonetic parameters. Distinctive features

pp.:  116 – 118

4.5. Phonological correlates of schwa loss

pp.:  118 – 121

4.6. Some consequences

pp.:  121 – 126

Chapter 5. Morphological aspects of schwa loss

pp.:  126 – 137

5.2. The morphologization of schwa loss

pp.:  137 – 145

5.1. The morpho-syntactic functions of schwa

pp.:  137 – 137

5.3. Classification and ranking of factors for schwa loss

pp.:  145 – 146

5.4. Syntactic correlates

pp.:  146 – 152

5.5. Extralinguistic factors

pp.:  152 – 158

5.6. Hierarchy of factors within individual word classes

pp.:  158 – 161

Chapter 6. Early schwa deletion as a prosodic phenomenon

pp.:  161 – 167

6.2. The shared properties of early schwa loss

pp.:  167 – 170

6.1. Early schwa loss data

pp.:  167 – 167

6.3. The rhythmic phrasing of early schwa deletion

pp.:  170 – 171

6.4. The Early Schwa Deletion Rule

pp.:  171 – 174

Chapter 7. Schwa preservation in Late Middle English as a prosodic phenomenon

pp.:  174 – 183

7.1. Final -e in weak adjectival inflexions

pp.:  183 – 183

7.2. The weak adjectives in Chaucer

pp.:  183 – 184

7.3. The weak adjectives in non-Chaucerian Late Middle English

pp.:  184 – 185

7.4. Accounts of adjectival schwa preservation

pp.:  185 – 187

7.5. The rhythmic nature of final -e

pp.:  187 – 189

7.6. The metrical structure of adjectival phrases

pp.:  189 – 190

7.7. The proposal reviewed: objections

pp.:  190 – 198

7.8. Conclusion

pp.:  198 – 199

Bibliography

pp.:  199 – 205

Index

pp.:  205 – 229

LastPages

pp.:  229 – 233

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