The History of Final Vowels in English : The Sound of Muting.

Intro -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Schwa in the history of English -- 1.1. Problems involved in the present study -- 1.2. Forces at play in schwa loss -- 1.3. Remarks on method -- 1.4. Analytical procedures -- Chapter 2. More background: Accounts of schwa loss -- 2.1. Choice of sources -- 2.2. Lorenz Morsbach (1896): Mittelenglische Grammatik -- 2.3. Karl Luick (1921-1940): Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache -- 2.4. Richard Jordan: (1934/1968) Handbuch der mittelenglischen Grammatik -- 2.5. Wilhelm Horn/Martin Lehnert (1954): Laut und Leben. Englische Lautgeschichte der neueren Zeit (1400-1950) -- 2.6. Karl Brunner (1962): Die englische Sprache, ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung. Vols. I, II -- 2.7. Joseph Wright and E. M. Wright (1923): An Elementary Middle English Grammar -- 2.8. Fernand Mossé (1949): Manuel de l'anglais du moyen âge -- 2.9. Jacek Fisiak (1970): A Short Grammar of Middle English -- 2.10. Peter Erdmann (1972): Tiefenphonologische Lautgeschichte der englischen Vokale -- 2.11. Summary -- Chapter 3. Textual evidence -- 3.1. Principles and methods specific to the study of schwa loss in Middle English -- 3.2. Types of evidence -- 3.3. Graphically marked morpho-syntactic loss of -e -- 3.4. Unetymological final -e -- 3.5. Elision in hiatus -- 3.6. Rhyme evidence -- 3.7. Scribal errors, editorial corrections -- 3.8. Graphically unmarked evidence -- Chapter 4. Phonological aspects of schwa loss -- 4.1. The phonemic status of schwa in Middle English -- 4.2. The Middle phonemic inventory -- 4.3. Distribution -- 4.4. Phonetic parameters. Distinctive features -- 4.5. Phonological correlates of schwa loss -- 4.6. Some consequences -- Chapter 5. Morphological aspects of schwa loss -- 5.1. The morpho-syntactic functions of schwa -- 5.2. The morphologization of schwa loss -- 5.3. Classification and ranking of factors for schwa loss.

5.4. Syntactic correlates -- 5.5. Extralinguistic factors -- 5.6. Hierarchy of factors within individual word classes -- Chapter 6. Early schwa deletion as a prosodic phenomenon -- 6.1. Early schwa loss data -- 6.2. The shared properties of early schwa loss -- 6.3. The rhythmic phrasing of early schwa deletion -- 6.4. The Early Schwa Deletion Rule -- Chapter 7. Schwa preservation in Late Middle English as a prosodic phenomenon -- 7.1. Final -e in weak adjectival inflexions -- 7.2. The weak adjectives in Chaucer -- 7.3. The weak adjectives in non-Chaucerian Late Middle English -- 7.4. Accounts of adjectival schwa preservation -- 7.5. The rhythmic nature of final -e -- 7.6. The metrical structure of adjectival phrases -- 7.7. The proposal reviewed: objections -- 7.8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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