A Biography of the English LanguageHolt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1988 - 386 pagina's "The second edition of A Biography of the English Language continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural events; and the English of the past has everywhere left its traces on present-day English. By uncovering the language's past, one can better communicate with it." -- Amazon.com viewed December 29, 2020. |
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... Figure 6.11 implies ; there was a great deal of fluctuation and mingling of types , and the same ME author frequently used two or more variants within the same text . A comparison of Figure 6.11 with Figure 5.11 will reveal that the ...
... Figure 6.11 implies ; there was a great deal of fluctuation and mingling of types , and the same ME author frequently used two or more variants within the same text . A comparison of Figure 6.11 with Figure 5.11 will reveal that the ...
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... Figure 7.4 with Figures 2.3 and 2.4 ( pp . 25 and 26 ) reveals that the PDE vowel inventory was achieved by the end of the EMNE period , although there have been some allophonic and distributional changes since 1800 , and although a ...
... Figure 7.4 with Figures 2.3 and 2.4 ( pp . 25 and 26 ) reveals that the PDE vowel inventory was achieved by the end of the EMNE period , although there have been some allophonic and distributional changes since 1800 , and although a ...
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... Figure 7.6 , reproductions of printed lines from the First Folio of Shakespeare ; the first passage is from Henry IV , Part 2 and the second is from The Merry Wives of Windsor . As Figure 7.6 shows , was not universal even in words like ...
... Figure 7.6 , reproductions of printed lines from the First Folio of Shakespeare ; the first passage is from Henry IV , Part 2 and the second is from The Merry Wives of Windsor . As Figure 7.6 shows , was not universal even in words like ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
Demarcating the History of English | 13 |
Phonemes and Allophones | 20 |
Copyright | |
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