Книга: The history of English

Содержание

• Pre-Roman Britain
• The Dark Ages
• Word Stress
• Independent Changes. Development of Monophthongs
• Palatal Mutation
• Changes of Unstressed Vowels in Early Old English
• Consonant Changes in Pre-Written Periods
• Treatment of Fricatives. Hardening. Rhotacism. Voicing and Devoicing
• West Germanic Gemination of Consonants
• Velar Consonants in Early Old English. Growth of New Phonemes
• Loss of Consonants in Some Positions
• The noun. Grammatical Categories. The Use of Cases
• Morphological Classification of Nouns. Declensions
• The pronoun
• Personal Pronouns*
• Demonstrative Pronouns
• The adjective. Grammatical Categories
• Weak and Strong Declension
• Degrees of Comparison
• Grammatical Categories of the Finite Verb
• Singular 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd
• Grammatical Categories of the Verbals
• Morphological Classification of Verbs
• Strong Verbs
• Minor Groups of Verbs
• Weak verbs
• Continuous Forms