Frontmatter -- Translator's Preface -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgment -- Foreword to the first edition -- Foreword to the second edition -- List of dialectal maps -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The Development Up to the End of the Fourteenth Century: The Germanic Element -- I. TONIC VOWELS -- II. ATONIC VOWELS -- III. CONSONANTS -- PART TWO: The Development Up to the End of the Fourteenth Century: The Romance Element -- IV. FRENCH VOWELS -- V. FRENCH CONSONANTS -- PART THREE: The Fifteenth Century -- VI. SHORT VOWELS -- VII. LONG VOWELS -- VIII. MIDDLE ENGLISH DIPHTHONGS -- IX. UNACCENTED VOWELS -- X. CONSONANTS -- Unclassified Sources -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Word Index