ABSTRACT
The tradition of English and other historical linguistics is often bedevilled by the proliferation of descriptive nomenclature and by a failure to relate phenomena in one often ad hocly delimited period with others, uncovered by other writers in their separate research domains. The most cursory review of the extensive literature on language change reveals a scholarly tradition. Linguistic innovation and destruction are treated as though they operate within the frame of reference of one of the most widely recognizable characteristics of the description of political and social temporal mutation a set of established and delimited periods or epochs. A view of language change as language history sees language itself divided up in a periodic, episodic fashion very often on the basis of criteria which are themselves non-linguistic in nature. The chapter presents one's historical data and the changes, alternations to undergo in terms of a very traditional phonetic framework, utilizing a straightforward and non-controversial transcription.
