This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in this book.

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

From language creator David J. Peterson comes a creative gui de to language constructio, offering an overview of language creation, covering its history from To

This book covers the historical development of the English phonological system from its earliest reconstructed and recorded forms to its most recent variations.