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Academic and other prose

Chris's academic work includes Metrical Phonology: A Coursebook (with Richard Hogg, CUP 1987); English Historical Metrics (co-edited with John J. Anderson, CUP 1996); and The Earliest English (with Sharon Hilles, Pearson Longman, 2005). In 2007 he completed a first-level textbook on phonology - The Sound Structure of English: An Introduction, again for CUP. Projected publication date for this last title is 2009.

In 2006 Chris was commissioned by Edinburgh University Press to do a book - what is billed as 'an advanced-level textbook' - on English metrics. Projected publication date for this one is 2011.

Chris has also edited or co-edited collections of literary papers (click, if you would, on the 'Poetry' page here)and collections of conference papers, and has himself contributed to many such volumes.

One other project I completed in 2006-07 was publication of a series of essays about the relationship between the history of the English language and the appearance (or death) of different poetic forms. I wrote six of these failed masterpieces. Each was published in sequential issues of PNReview. You'll find hard copies of some of them by clicking on the link(s) below.

The Word in Time (1) Caedmon The Word in Time (2) Chaucer The Word in Time (3) Marlowe The Word in Time (4) Coleridge The Word in Time (5) Pound The Word in Time (6): Watery pebbles

Chris is editing Adam Knott's extensive work on 'A history of English - in three minutes' for electronic publication. By clicking on the links below you will find section-by-section information on the history of the English language. The sections are themed. Just click on the topic which you would like to research. Additions to this work will be made periodically, as the relevant shoe-boxes are found and become available, so please check back if you can't immediately find what you're looking for.

NOTE: because it remains in copyright, and indeed in its original shoe-boxes, no part of this work may ever be reproduced in any form whatsoever, and those who attempt to sing it (or even hum it a bit) in churches will be visited by the full, and not inconsiderable, weight of Adam Knott's legal team.

Grimm's Law i-mutation Breaking Palatal Diphthongisation Inflections WO in OE Anglo-Saxon manuscripts Specimen of Old English poetry Specimen OE translation (prose) Beowulf Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse Translating OE poetry Anglo-Saxon prose Old English morphology Old Norse and Old English Late Old English Old English pronouns Towards the Norman Conquest The linguistic situation in post-Conquest England The Peterborough Chronicle The history of the definite article English in the 12th century Early 13th century poetry The history of modal verbs in Middle English The emergence of written English Chaucer The language of Piers Plowman Chaucer's final -e The language of Gawain

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