From Dialect to Standard

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English in England 1154-1776

Hans Frede Nielsen(Author)

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From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154-1776
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ERRATA
8. THE PLANTAGENET ERA: HISTORY AND LANGUAGE
8.1. Political Developments between 1154 and 1485
8.1.1. The Angevins1
8.1.1.1. Angevin rule until 1272
8.1.1.2. From Edward I to Richard II (1272-1399)
8.1.2. The Lancaster and York kings (1399-1485)
8.2. Politics and the French Lexical Impact on English
8.3. The Sociolinguistic Situation in England
8.3.1. The Norman and early Angevin eras
8.3.2. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
8.4. The French Lexical Impact on English Revisited
8.5. Contact with Other Languages
8.5.1. Celtic
8.5.2. Scandinavian
8.5.3. Latin
8.5.3.1. Latin lexical influence on English
8.5.3.2. 'Latyn corrupt' and macaronic writing
8.5.4. Dutch
8.6. Concluding Remarks
9. THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD
9.1. Introduction
9.2. The Heterogeneity of Middle English
9.2.1. Some contemporary voices
9.2.2. Regional dialects
9.2.3. Variation over time
9.3. Textual Evidence for the Middle English Dialects
9.3.1. Early and late Middle English texts
9.3.2. Dialect samples
9.3.2.1. Northern
9.3.2.2. East Midland
9.3.2.3. West Midland
9.3.2.4. South-Western
9.3.2.5. South-Eastern
9.3.3. A selection of Middle English dialect criteria
9.3.3.1. Old English a
9.3.3.2. Old English ?
9.3.3.3. Old English eo
9.3.3.4. Old English a plus nasal
9.3.3.5. The Old English initial fricatives
9.3.3.6. Old English hw-
9.3.3.7. Consonantal northernisms
9.3.3.8. The Old English substantival plural markers
9.3.3.9. The 3 personal plural pronouns
9.3.3.10. The present tense
9.3.3.11. The past participles
9.3.3.12. The present participles
9.3.3.13. The infinitives
9.3.3.14. Lexical borrowing
9.3.3.15. Higden revisited. A summary
9.3.4. Modern surveys of the Middle English dialects
9.3.4.1. Moore, Meech & Whitehall
9.3.4.2. Kristensson
9.3.4.3. Mcintosh, Samuels & Benskin
9.4. A Linguistic Profile of Middle English
9.4.1. Phonology and spelling
9.4.1.1. The accented vowels
9.4.1.2. The vocalism of final unaccented syllables
9.4.1.3. The consonant system
9.4.1.4. An orthographic note
9.4.2. Morphology
9.4.2.1. Nouns
9.4.2.2. Pronouns and articles
9.4.2.3. Adjectives, adverbs and numerals
9.4.2.4. Verbs
9.4.3. Syntax
9.4.3.1. General remarks on Middle English word-order
9.4.3.2. The propword one
9.4.3.3. The genitive case
9.4.3.4. The subjunctive mood
9.4.3.5. The passive
9.4.3.6. The expanded form
9.4.3.7. The perfect and the pluperfect
9.4.3.8. The future
9.4.3.9. Periphrastic constructions with do and gan
9.4.3.10. Negation
9.4.3.11. Concord
9.4.4. Lexicon
9.4.4.1. Introduction
9.4.4.2. The lexical heritage of Middle English
9.4.4.3. Further observations on the French lexical impact
9.4.4.4. The influx of Latin words
9.4.4.4.1. When and why
9.4.4.4.2. Latin or French? A problem illustrated
9.4.4.4.3. Lydgate's aureate style
10. THE FRENCH ELEMENT IN MIDDLE ENGLISH
10.1. The Franco-English Contact Situation
10.1.1. The creolization hypothesis
10.1.2. A summary of the possible effects of contact with French
10.1.2.1. Direct evidence
10.1.2.2. Indirect evidence
10.1.3. A non-creolist voice
10.2. Lexical Loans
10.2.1. Introduction
10.2.2. Borrowing according to semantic sphere
10.2.3. Borrowing according to word-class
10.2.4. The general character of French loan-words
10.2.4.1. Everyday words
10.2.4.2. Examples of formal borrowing
10.2.5. Provenance and chronology
10.2.5.1. Norman French or Central French?
10.2.5.2. Early or late loans?
10.2.6. Grammatical forms and accent of French words adopted
10.2.6.1. Nouns and adjectives
10.2.6.2. Verbs
10.2.6.3. Accentuation
10.3. Synonymy
10.3.1. Double expressions
10.3.2. Semantic differentiation
10.3.3. Synonyms from three languages
10.4. Phrasal Borrowing
10.4.1. French phrases in English and their survival
10.4.2. A major investigation
10.4.3. The significance of phrasal borrowing
10.5. Word-Formation
10.5.1. Compounding
10.5.2. Prefixation
10.5.3. Suffixation
10.6. Toponymy
10.6.1. Settlement-names and field-names
10.6.2. French influence on spelling and pronunciation?
11. THE LONDON DIALECT AND THE RISE OF AN EARLY STANDARD LANGUAGE
11.1. Early London English: The Proclamation of Henry III
11.1.1. Introductory remarks
11.1.2. The proclamation
11.1.3. Diagnosing the text
11.1.4. Dialect and immigration. An extralinguistic note
11.2. Inciplent Attempts at Creating a Standard Language
11.2.1. Dialectal diversity and the North
11.2.2. The Wycliffite literary standard
11.2.3. An early London standard
11.3. Later London English: Chaucer's Language
11.3.1. On London literary usage after 1380
11.3.2. A Chaucer text analysed
11.4. Chancery English
11.4.1. Anew standard language
11.4.2. A petition from 1455
11.5. Two Late Fifteenth-Century Texts and the New Standard
11.5.1. A Paston letter (1467)
11.5.2. Caxton's prologue to his translation of Eneydos (1490)
11.6. English Written and Spoken
12. TUDORS, STUARTS AND BEYOND:HISTORY AND LANGUAGE UNTIL 1776
12.1. Political Developments
12.1.1. England under Tudor rule
12.1.1.1. The Renaissance
12.1.1.2. The two Henrys
12.1.1.3. A brother and two half-sisters
12.1.2. The Stuarts
12.1.2.1. The early Stuarts
12.1.2.2. Interregnum
12.1.2.3. Restoration monarchy
12.1.3. The eighteenth century (1689-1776)
12.1.3.1. The revolution monarchy
12.1.3.2. Three Georges and the first British Emplre
12.1.3.3. Social, religious and cultural developments
12.2. Modern English
12.3. English Enriched: The Inkhorn Controversy
12.3.1. Aureation
12.3.2. Purism
12.3.3. Moderation
12.4. English Regulated
12.4.1. Dictionaries
12.4.2. Grammars
12.4.3. Orthography
12.4.4. An English Academy?
12.5. Loan-Words
12.5.1. Introductory remarks
12.5.2. Lexical borrowing from the classical languages
12.5.2.1. Latin
12.5.2.2. Greek
12.5.3. Loans from Romance languages
12.5.3.1. French
12.5.3.2. Italian
12.5.3.3. Spanish and Portuguese
12.5.4. Loans from other European languages
12.5.4.1. Dutch
12.5.4.2. High German
12.5.4.3. Scandinavian
12.5.4.4. Celtic
12.5.5. Loans from non-European languages
13. CHANGE AND VARIATIONIN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
13.1. Diachronic Developments: Five EModE Texts Compared
13.1.1. Shakespeare's King Lear
13.1.2. The Machyn Diary
13.1.3. Milton's Samson Agonistes
13.1.4. Newton's Opticks
13.1.5. Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
13.1.6. Summing up
13.2. Regional Variation
13.2.1. Edgar's dialect in King Lear Act IV, Scene vi
13.2.2. Captain Jamy's dialect in King Henry V Act III, Scene iii
13.2.3. Dialect and standard
13.3. Social Variation
13.3.1. General remarks
13.3.2. Cockney7
13.4. A Spoken Standard?
14. A LINGUISTIC PROFILE OF EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
14.1. Phonology, Spelling and Accentuation
14.1.1. Evidence for the pronunciation of early Modern English
14.1.2. Vowels
14.1.2.1. The inventory of vowel phonemes in the late eighteenth century
14.1.2.2. The Great Vowel Shift
14.1.2.3. The impact of M on preceding vowels
14.1.2.4. The ME sources of the late eighteenth-century vowel inventory
14.1.2.4.1. The long monophthongs
14.1.2.4.2. The diphthongs
14.1.2.4.3. The short monophthongs
14.1.3. Consonants
14.1.4. Remarks on spelling and punctuation
14.1.5. Prosodic features: accentuation
14.2. Morphology
14.2.1. Nouns
14.2.2. Pronouns and articles
14.2.3. Adjectives, adverbs and numerals
14.2.4. Verbs
14.3. Syntax22
14.3.1. General remarks on eModE word-order and sentence syntax
14.3.2. The propword one
14.3.3. The genitive case
14.3.4. The subjunctive mood
14.3.5. The passive
14.3.6. The expanded form
14.3.7. The perfect and the pluperfect
14.3.8. The future
14.3.9. Periphrastic constructions with do
14.3.10. Negation
14.3.11. Concord
14.4. Word-Formation
14.4.1. Compounding
14.4.2. Prefixation
14.4.3. Suffixation
14.4.4. Conversion
14.4.5. Other formations of new words
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