A thorough and fascinating exploration of the evolution of English'phonological structure,
this book traces the history of individual sounds and their representation through Old …

Where does today's English language come from? This book takes its readers on a journey
back in time, from present-day varieties to the Old English of Beowulf and beyond. Written for …

This chapter addresses current concerns in the description of the status and history of the
English lexicon. It starts by highlighting the problems of estimating the size of the vocabulary …

30.1 Introduction Language contact describes that state of affairs in which speakers of
different languages have some kind of linguistic interaction with each other. The …

This chapter continues Murray's survey of early work on historical phonology (this volume)
through structuralism in both narrow and broad senses. We argue that the inheritance from …

Phonemes with restricted distribution represent an interesting analytic challenge. Well-
known sources include the adoption of certain phonemes from other languages in borrowed …

Abstract Although Old English [f] and [v] are represented unambiguously in Older Scots
orthography by and (or) in initial and morpheme-internal position, in morpheme-final …

The theoretical framework adopted in the analysis of Old English obstruents is laryngeal
realism, a framework using privative features in modelling laryngeal oppositions. Equipollent …

This paper argues for a dynamic approach towards sound patterns, where both phonetically
and cognitively grounded developmental and processing principles are assumed to be the …

The topic of the dissertation is the Germanic morpheme-ish/Ish, which forms adjectives and
attaches to a variety of base words in its bound form (-ish). Recently, it has detached from …