Diachronic English Linguistics: An Introduction

17th century adjectives borrowed Chapt complementary distribution consonant cluster contains dative declension derivatives diachronic dialect Dictionary diphthong e.g. OE element EModE period ending English Language English London etyma etymon examples final position free morpheme free variants fricatives front vowels functional genitive German Grammar Historical Linguistics History i-mutation inflected form inflectional paradigm Latin lexical verb masculine meaning merger Middle English modal monophthongs morphological neuter occur OE etymon OE period OE substantives Old English opposition Oxford passive PDE form PDE words periphrastic person singular indicative personal pronouns phoneme Pilch plural prefixes pronunciation Proto-Germanic quot relating to chapter relative clause reprints semantic change sound-change spelling stem vowel stressed vowels strong verbs structure suffix syllable tense third person singular tion tive Tübingen Tudor Vowel Shift velar verbal syntagm voiced voiceless vowel alternation Vowel Shift weak verbs word classes