An outline of Middle English grammar /

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Author / Creator:Stobie, Margaret R., 1909-1990
Imprint:Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press [1970]
Description:viii, 112 pages map 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2106117
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ISBN:0837143241
9780837143248
Notes:Reprint of the 1938 ed.
Also issued online.
committed to retain 20170930 20421213 HathiTrust
Other form:Online version: Roseborough, Margaret M. Outline of Middle English grammar. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press [1970]
Table of Contents:
  • The middle English period
  • The chief dialectal differences in O.E.
  • M.E. changes; introduction
  • Orthographic changes
  • Phonology : quantitative sound changes
  • Shortening and lengthening
  • Phonology: qualitative sound changes; the development of O.E. diphthongs in M.E.
  • Phonology: qualitative sound changes; new diphthongs in M.E.
  • Phonology: qualitative sound changes; consonants
  • Accidence: introduction
  • Accidence: nouns and adjectives
  • Accidence: pronouns
  • Accidence: verbs
  • Accidence: syntax
  • Borrowings
  • The language of Chaucer
  • Literary tendencies in M.E.