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<p>Preface viii</p> <p>List of abbreviations xi</p> <p>1 Introduction 1</p> <p>2 Orthography and phonology 10</p> <p>3 The vowels in Germanic 52</p> <p>I Primitive Germanic (§§1–4) 52</p> <p>II Vowel harmony (§§5–12) 53</p> <p>III Loss of nasals and compensatory lengthening (§§13–15) 55</p> <p>IV Diphthongization (§§16–19) 56</p> <p>V Influence of */z/ (§§20–1) 59</p> <p>VI Long vowels (§§22–6) 59</p> <p>VII Unstressed vowels (§§27–33) 62</p> <p>VIII Raising of back vowels (§34) 64</p> <p>4 The consonants in Germanic 66</p> <p>I Primitive Germanic (§§1–3) 66</p> <p>II Verner’s Law (§§4–5) 67</p> <p>III Germanic approximants (§§6–9) 68</p> <p>IV Consonant loss (§10) 70</p> <p>V West Germanic gemination (§§11–14) 71</p> <p>VI Miscellanea (§§15–19) 72</p> <p>5 Old English vowels 74</p> <p>I First fronting and associated changes (§§3–15) 75</p> <p>II Breaking (§§16–34) 82</p> <p>III Restoration of A (§§35–40) 93</p> <p>IV Lowering of second elements of diphthongs (§§41–6) 99</p> <p>V Palatal diphthongization (§§47–73) 104</p> <p>VI I-umlaut (§§74–86) 118</p> <p>VII Second fronting (§§87–92) 135</p> <p>VIII Anglian smoothing (§§93–102) 139</p> <p>IX Back umlaut (§§103–12) 149</p> <p>X Palatal umlaut (§§113–18) 163</p> <p>XI Palatal monophthongization (§§119–23) 166</p> <p>XII Compensatory lengthening (§§124–30) 169</p> <p>XIII Hiatus (§§131–54) 172</p> <p>XIV Merger of /io/ and /eo/ (§§155–62) 185</p> <p>XV West Saxon developments of high front vowels and diphthongs (§§163–75) 190</p> <p>XVI The influence of /w/ (§§176–87) 198</p> <p>XVII The development of Kentish front vowels (§§188–96) 203</p> <p>XVIII Changes in quantity (§§197–205) 206</p> <p>XIX Monophthongization of diphthongs (§§206–14) 210</p> <p>XX Merger of /æ/ and /w/ (§§215–16) 213</p> <p>6 Unstressed vowels 214</p> <p>I First fronting and associated changes (§§2–6) 214</p> <p>II Breaking, palatal diphthongization, i-umlaut, and back umlaut (§§7–12) 217</p> <p>III Syncope and apocope (§§13–25) 220</p> <p>IV Shortening (§§26–33) 227</p> <p>V Epenthesis and syllabification (§§34–45) 230</p> <p>VI Mergers of unstressed vowels (§§46–62) 235</p> <p>VII Unstressed medial vowels (§§63–71) 242</p> <p>7 Old English consonants 246</p> <p>I Dissimilation (§§4–14) 247</p> <p>II Palatalization and assibilation (§§15–43) 252</p> <p>III Development of fricatives (i): lenition (§§44–53) 270</p> <p>IV Development of fricatives (ii): voicing and devoicing (§§54–68) 276</p> <p>V Post-vocalic approximants (§§69–76) 283</p> <p>VI Consonant clusters (§§77–97) 287</p> <p>VII Loss of final nasals (§§98–100) 298</p> <p>VIII Late Old English changes (§§101–3) 299</p> <p>References 301</p> <p>Word index 315</p>

The late <b>Richard M. Hogg</b> was Professor of English Language at the University of Manchester. He was the General Editor of the <i>Cambridge History of the English Language</i> and author, with C. B. McCully, of <i>Metrical Phonology: A Coursebook</i> (1987), and editor, with David Denison, of <i>A History of the English Language</i> (2008).

First published in 1992, <i>A Grammar of Old English, Volume 1: Phonology</i> was a landmark publication that in the intervening years has not been surpassed in its depth of scholarship and usefulness to the field. With the 2011 posthumous publication of Richard M. Hogg’s <i>Volume 2: Morphology</i>, <i>Volume 1</i> is again in print, now in paperback, so that scholars can own this complete work. <p/> <i>Volume 1: Phonology</i> is designed to take account of major developments both in the field of Old English studies and in linguistic theory. Taking full advantage of the <i>Dictionary of Old</i> <i>English</i> project at <ST1:CITY w:st="on">Toronto</ST1:CITY>, the book includes full cross-references to the <i>DOE</i> data, and items which are not in the <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Toronto</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY> databases are specially indicated. <p/> This volume fully utilizes work in phonemic and generative theory and related topics, and it provides material which could be crucial for future research both in diachronic and synchronic phonology and in historical sociolinguistics.

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