English Word Stress and Related Phenomena
Dóra Muzsik
Broschiertes Buch

English Word Stress and Related Phenomena

A Historical Overview

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In the first chapter of my work I give a brief overview on word stress in general. In the next chapter I discuss the quite unique stress system of present day English by examining one by one the separate word classes and also the morphologically complex words. In the following five chapters I discuss the evolution of the English stress system, starting from the "pre-English" - the Germanic - period, and then finally arriving to Later Modern English. I also try to show, from time to time, that change in the English stress system is not an isolated phenomenon and that how other linguistic - and ...