Acknowledgements |
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About this book, and how to use it |
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Phonetic symbols used |
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Part I Preliminaries and Ancestries |
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1 History, and historical change |
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3 | (10) |
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1.2 How English has changed |
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4 | (4) |
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8 | (5) |
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2 Languages and their daughters |
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13 | (12) |
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2.2 The Indo-European tree |
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15 | (1) |
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2.3 The Germanic languages |
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16 | (2) |
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18 | (2) |
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20 | (5) |
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25 | (64) |
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3 Old English: a first look |
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27 | (12) |
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27 | (5) |
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3.2 Old English: a foreign language? |
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32 | (4) |
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3.3 Suffix-rich, English, Germanic |
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36 | (3) |
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4 OE writing, pronunciation, and a devil of a mouthful |
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39 | (9) |
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4.1 A few more OE letters |
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39 | (1) |
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40 | (3) |
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4.3 The nun, the devil, and a lettuce |
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43 | (2) |
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4.4 Five words that may ring bells |
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45 | (3) |
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5 The Old English word-hoard |
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48 | (18) |
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5.1 How languages expand vocabulary |
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48 | (2) |
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5.2 Using native resources |
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50 | (5) |
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55 | (11) |
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6 OE grammar: a `jungle of endings' |
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66 | (15) |
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6.1 Into the dense jungle: noun phrases |
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67 | (5) |
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72 | (3) |
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75 | (6) |
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7 OE literature: `a syzygy of dipodic hemistichs' |
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81 | (8) |
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7.1 A rich and significant literature |
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81 | (1) |
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7.2 `Rough Guides' to three works |
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82 | (4) |
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7.3 Hemistichs, dipody and syzygy |
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86 | (1) |
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7.4 Reading more OE poetry |
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87 | (2) |
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89 | (62) |
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8 Lo, England into Normandy's hand |
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91 | (13) |
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8.1 Men, noble and low: a first look at ME |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (3) |
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96 | (2) |
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8.4 English re-established |
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98 | (1) |
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8.5 Chaunticleer and Russell |
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98 | (6) |
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9 `The English tongue... honourably enlarged and adorned': ME words and pragmatics |
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104 | (20) |
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9.1 Native versus borrowed |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (8) |
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9.3 Some ME pragmatics, by goddes bones |
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113 | (11) |
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10 `Lighter... than the Old and ancient English' |
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124 | (16) |
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10.1 `Lightening up' the language |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (8) |
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10.3 Sounds... and what happened to Chaunticleer |
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133 | (7) |
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11 ME literature: inside and outside the `field full of folk' |
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140 | (11) |
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140 | (2) |
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11.2 The alliterative revival |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (2) |
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11.5 Looking at more ME literature |
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147 | (4) |
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151 | (10) |
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12 A short interlude about long vowels: the Great Vowel Shift |
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153 | (8) |
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12.1 The Great Vowel Shift |
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153 | (4) |
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12.2 The GVS, sounds and spellings |
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157 | (1) |
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157 | (4) |
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Part V Early Modern English |
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161 | (105) |
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13 `Manie matters of singular discourse': some English Renaissance history |
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163 | (12) |
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13.1 A happy breed of men |
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163 | (3) |
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166 | (2) |
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13.3 Fine volleys of words |
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168 | (2) |
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13.4 The rogues in buckrom |
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170 | (5) |
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14 `Wryting treu' and `soundying cleare': EModE graphology, spelling and pronunciation |
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175 | (15) |
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175 | (3) |
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14.2 Writing in the `buckrom story' |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (2) |
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14.4 Some sound differences between then and now |
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182 | (3) |
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14.5 Historical pronunciation: some more about how we know |
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185 | (1) |
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14.6 `Settling down': a key phrase |
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186 | (4) |
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15 Turning water into wine: Renaissance words |
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190 | (17) |
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15.1 `Curvets' and `two-like' triangles |
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190 | (2) |
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15.2 To borrow or not to borrow: the inkhorn controversy |
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192 | (1) |
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193 | (3) |
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196 | (5) |
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15.5 EModE vocabulary today |
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201 | (6) |
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16 `True and well-speaking a language': Renaissance grammar |
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207 | (13) |
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16.1 `Grammatical oddities' |
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207 | (3) |
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16.2 -s and -eth: variation, language spread, and gender |
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210 | (2) |
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16.3 The `half-way house': do-support |
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212 | (1) |
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16.5 Ye, you and thou: some basics 21 |
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17 `I thou thee, thou traitor': some Renaissance pragmatics |
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220 | (14) |
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17.1 Much more on you and thou |
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220 | (4) |
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224 | (3) |
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227 | (7) |
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18 `Well turned, and true filed lines': Renaissance literature |
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234 | (12) |
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234 | (2) |
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236 | (2) |
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238 | (2) |
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18.4 The iambic pentameter |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (5) |
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19 `A settled, certain and corrected language': the seventeenth century |
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246 | (20) |
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19.1 From `stony couch to feather bed': some general history |
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246 | (3) |
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19.2 The Royal Society: scientific and linguistic aspirations |
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249 | (4) |
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19.3 A seventeenth-century text about a cold, wet Christmas |
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253 | (1) |
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19.4 Some language points |
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254 | (4) |
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19.5 Seventeenth-century literature: a full stop, or just a comma? |
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258 | (3) |
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19.6 1700: another comma, or a real full stop? |
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261 | (5) |
References |
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266 | (6) |
Index |
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