1st Edition

A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles Volume 1, Sounds and Spellings

By Otto Jespersen Copyright 1954
    500 Pages
    by Routledge

    500 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book was first published in 1954.

    1. Introduction

    2. The basis. Consonants

    3. The basis. Vowels and dipthongs

    4. The basis . Quantity

    5. Stress

    6. The earliest changes

    7. Early changes in consonant-groups

    8. The great vowel-shift

    9. Unstressed vowels

    10. Loss of consonants and rise of

    11. Seventeenth century vowel changes

    12. Eighteenth century changes

    13. Present English sounds. Consonants

    14. Present English sounds. Vowels

    15. Conclusion

     

    Biography

    Otto Jespersen