An Introduction to Middle English: Grammar and Texts - Softcover

R. D. Fulk

 
9781551118949: An Introduction to Middle English: Grammar and Texts

Synopsis

This new introduction to Middle English combines detailed grammar with a varied reader. An extensive glossary is provided. Thirty-eight Middle English texts, from The Peterborough Chronicle to The Book of Margery Kempe, illustrate the wide variation in the language across both time and space, and facsimile manuscript pages provide further historical context.

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About the Author

R.D. Fulk is the Class of 1964 Chancellor’s Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington.

From the Back Cover

An Introduction to Middle English combines an elementary grammar of the English language from about 1100 to about 1500 with a selection of texts for reading, ranging in date from 1154 to 1500. The grammar includes the fundamentals of orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, regional dialectology, and prosody. In the thirty-eight texts for reading are represented a wide range of Middle English dialects, and the commentary on each text includes, in addition to explanatory notes, extensive linguistic analysis.

The book includes many useful figures and illustrations, including images of Middle English manuscripts as an aid to learning to decipher medieval handwriting and maps indicating the geographical extent of dialect features. This introduction to Middle English is based on the latest research, and it provides up-to-date bibliographical guidance to the study of the language.

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