Download or read book A Survey of Middle English Dialects 1290-1350 written by Gillis Kristensson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is the third installment of A Survey of Middle English Dialects 1290-1350. It is based on the spellings of place and personal names in the Lay Subsidy Rolls. The appearance of OE phonemes and sequences of phenomes is examined, the result being a delineation of the East Midland dialect area. The examination affords an approximate divide between the settlements of the Angles and the Saxons in Old English times. It also illustrates the original territory of the East Saxons, and throws light on the Anglo-Saxon invasion in prehistoric times.