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What ’s afoot with word-final C?
Metrical coherence and the history of English
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Chris B. McCully
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Addresses vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- Linguistic accommodation 9
- Style evolution in the English sermon 25
- Lexical bundles in Early Modern English dialogues 45
- Changing documentation in the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary 65
- A linguistic history of advertising, 1700–1890 83
- Ebb and flow 105
- Wreak, wrack, rack, and (w)ruin 129
- When did English begin? 145
- What ’s afoot with word-final C? 173
- Dan Michel 189
- Historical discourse analysis 201
- Key issues in English etymology 227
- The dialectology of ‘English’ north of the Humber, c.1380–1500 253
- Name index 287
- Subject index 293
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Addresses vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- Linguistic accommodation 9
- Style evolution in the English sermon 25
- Lexical bundles in Early Modern English dialogues 45
- Changing documentation in the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary 65
- A linguistic history of advertising, 1700–1890 83
- Ebb and flow 105
- Wreak, wrack, rack, and (w)ruin 129
- When did English begin? 145
- What ’s afoot with word-final C? 173
- Dan Michel 189
- Historical discourse analysis 201
- Key issues in English etymology 227
- The dialectology of ‘English’ north of the Humber, c.1380–1500 253
- Name index 287
- Subject index 293
