This thorough analysis of documented Middle English spelling establishes when and where long-vowel change took place.

Examines how pre-modernist conceptions and social organizations of pleasure have impacted post-WWII film.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern English, organized by linguistic level. The volume not only presents detailed outlines of the tradi

Where does today’s English language come from? This book takes its readers on a journey back in time, from present-day varieties to the Old English of Beowulf

A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period t