Introduction to Middle English

<p>First published in 1937 this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period. It offers an in-depth study of the growth of vocabulary through literature and social interaction bringing out the fact that it is chiefly words that foreign influence has affected — leaving sentence structure almost unaltered. Isolative and combinative changes in phonology the accidence of nouns and plurals pronouns and adverbs and verbs are also examined in detail along with a general overview of the features Middle English and a brief outline of each dialect’s most striking characteristics. </p>