Analyzing Syntax through Texts: Old, Middle, and Early Modern English.

Author / Editor
van Gelderen, Elly.

Title
Analyzing Syntax through Texts: Old, Middle, and Early Modern English.

Published
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Physical Description
xix, 201 pp.; illus.

Series
Edinburgh Historical Linguistics.

Description
Classroom textbook of examples for syntactical analysis in English language history, with texts reproduced in color manuscript, original-language transcriptions, and modern translations, plus commentary on significant features of language and presentation for placing the date, dialect, and register of the samples as well as with their places in the development of English. Chapter 5.2 examines Astro 1.1-5 from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS English 920.

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe
Facsimiles, Editions amd Translations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Language and Word Studies