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Nikolaus Ritt.
Quantity Adjustment: Vowel Lengthening and Shortening in Early Middle English.

Published Cambridge U.P., 1994.
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, supplementary volume.
ISBN 0521462320;
ISBN-13 9780521462327.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound; printed boards, published without a dustjacket.
Printer: University Press, Cambridge.
Size: 156x233x19mm.
Page count: x,206pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good to very good: this copy has some mild scuffs & dinks on the boards and spine, otherwise doesn’t look heavily used; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £25.00
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[Publisher’s price for paperback £30.99]
Weight without packaging: 495g.

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Contents: Approaching the changes; Reconstructing OSL; Widening the meaning of OSL; A suprasegmental view of OSL; Summary — OSL defined; Homorganic lengthening; Shortenings; Epilogue — explaining Middle English quantity adjustment.

Illustrations: 13
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: 17
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 14pp
Index: yes


See also | Linguistics |

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