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Author Barber, Charles Laurence.

Title The English language : a historical introduction / Charles Barber
Edition Canto edition
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description xi, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Series Knjižnica Canto.
Contents What is language? -- The flux of language -- The Indo-European languages -- The Germanic languages -- Old English -- Norsemen and Normans -- Middle English -- Early Modern English -- English in the scientific age -- English as a world language -- English today and tomorrow
Notes Originally published: 1993
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [283]-291
Subject English language -- History.
Historical linguistics.
Genre/Form History.
LC no. 92018555
ISBN 0521785707 paperback
9780521785709