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Anglicana Formata
Author_Jeremy Smith
Black English
Black English Vernacular
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Chancery Standard
chronicle
dialectal variation
Early Modern English Period
English Dialect Dictionary
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external influences on English development
grammatical evolution
great
Great Vowel Shift
historical linguistics
Jamaican Creole
language standardisation
Late West Saxon
Linguistic Change
middle
Middle English
Middle English Period
MS London
MS Oxford
orthographic change
period
peterborough
Peterborough Chronicle
post-Old English
Present Day English
Present Day Scots
Received Pronunciation
saxon
Scot
Scottish Standard English
shift
Singular Plural
sociolinguistic factors
Standardised Southern English
System III
vowel
west
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415132725
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Through his analysis of selected major developments in the history of English, Jeremy Smith argues that the history of the language can only be understood from a dynamic perspective. He proposes that internal linguistic mechanisms for language change cannot be meaningfully explained in isolation or without reference to external linguistic factors.
Smith provides the reader with an accessible synthesis of recent developments in English historical linguistics. His book: Looks at the theory and methodology of linguistic historiography . Considers the major changes in writing systems, pronunciation and grammar. Provides examples of these changes, such as the standardisation of spellings and accent and the origins of the Great Vowel Shift Focuses on the origins of two non-standard varieties; eighteenth century Scots and twentieth century British Black English.This book makes fascinating reading for students of English Historical linguistics, and is an original, important and above all, lively contribution to the field.
Jeremy Smith is Reader in English Language at the University of Glasgow.
