Historical Outlines from Sound to Text

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The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional linguistic areas - phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics - and chapters on prosody, idioms, fixed expressions, onomastics, orthography, register, and standardization, among others.