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Tables of Contents for The Cambridge History of the English Language
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
viii
 
List of contributors
ix
 
General Editor's preface
xi
 
Acknowledgements
xv
 
List of abbreviations and symbols
xvi
 
Introduction
1
12
Roger Lass
The setting
1
3
Social and linguistic change
4
2
The sociolinguistic and historiographic context
6
3
The language itself
9
4
Orthography and Punctuation
13
43
Vivian Salmon
Introduction: speech and writing
13
2
The introduction of standard orthography and punctuation: some theoretical considerations
15
8
Orthography and punctuation in practice before 1582
23
9
Orthography and punctuation, 1582--1660
32
12
Orthography and punctuation, 1661--1776
44
9
Conclusion
53
3
Note
53
1
Further reading
54
2
Phonology and Morphology
56
131
Roger Lass
Introduction
56
11
Phonology: the Middle English inputs
67
5
The Great Vowel Shift
72
13
Further evolution of the vowel system
85
31
The consonant system
116
8
Stress, vowel reduction, vowel loss
124
13
Morphology 1: domain and perspectives
137
3
Morphology 2: the major word-classes
140
47
Notes
181
5
Further reading
186
1
Syntax
187
145
Matti Rissanen
Introduction
187
4
The noun phrase
191
18
The verb phrase
209
39
Elements of the clause
248
15
The simple sentence
263
17
Composite sentences
280
52
Notes
323
3
Further reading
326
6
Early Modern English Lexis and Semantics
332
127
Terttu Nevalainen
Introduction
332
4
The expanding lexicon
336
13
Lexical processes
349
9
Borrowing
358
18
Word-formation
376
57
Semantic change
433
26
Notes
454
2
Further reading
456
3
Regional and Social Variation
459
80
Manfred Gorlach
General background
459
15
Attitudes
474
12
Evidence of geographical variation
486
28
Evidence of social variation
514
17
Conclusion
531
8
Appendices
532
6
Note
538
1
Literary Language
539
115
Sylvia Adamson
Introduction
539
2
The renaissance phase, 1500--1667
541
8
Of varying
549
21
Of amplifying
570
25
The neo-classical phase, 1660--1776
595
4
Of perspicuity
599
18
Of perspicuous sublimity
617
20
Coda---the breakdown of the neo-classical paradigm
637
17
Key to the numbered examples
642
6
Key to the cited authors
648
1
Further reading
649
5
Glossary of linguistic terms
654
15
Bibliographies
669
60
Chapter 1
669
1
Chapter 2
670
6
Chapter 3
676
8
Chapter 4
684
17
Chapter 5
701
9
Chapter 6
710
7
Chapter 7
717
12
Index
729