Historical Outlines from Sound to Text.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Mouton Reader Series .
- Mouton Reader Series .
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Periodization in the History of the English Language -- Chapter 3: Phonology -- Chapter 4: Prosody -- Chapter 5: Morphology -- Chapter 6: Syntax -- Chapter 7: Semantics and Lexicon -- Chapter 8: Idioms and Fixed Expressions -- Chapter 9: Pragmatics and Discourse -- Chapter 10: Onomastics -- Chapter 11: Orthography -- Chapter 12: Styles, Registers, Genres, Text Types -- Chapter 13: Standards in the History of English -- Index.
This series of books reprints articles from the successful English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook (HSK 34.1 and 34.2) in a convenient paperback set suitable for use in the classroom or by scholars. While the first volume provides an overview of the history of English, the second to fourth volumes focus on individual periods and the final volume covers language variation from an historical perspective.