| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 485 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: a history of English / Lynda Mugglestone -- Preliminaries: before English / Terry Hoad -- Beginnings and transitions: old English / Susan Irvine -- Contacts and conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend -- Middle English--dialects and diversity / Marilyn Corrie -- From middle to early modern English / Jeremy Smith -- Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon -- Mapping change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen -- The Babel of Renaissance English / Paula Blank -- English at the onset of the normative tradition / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- English in the nineteenth century / Lynda Mugglestone -- Modern regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton -- English among the languages / Richard W. Bailey -- English world-wide in the twentieth century / Tom McArthur -- Into the twenty-first century / David Crystal |
| Summary |
The Oxford History of English traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its twenty-first century position as the world's first language. It describes the history of English within the British Isles, its changing roles in different places, and its rise to global pre-eminence. Fifteen experts describe the history of English within a chronological framework: they examine written varieties and the spoken language of everyday life; and they consider and. explain changes in words, meanings, grammar, and pronunciation. The book will appeal to everyone with a keen interest in the Eng |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-471) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
English language -- History.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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English language
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Mugglestone, Lynda
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| LC no. |
2006013471 |
| ISBN |
9780191530371 |
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0191530379 |
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9781429470384 |
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1429470380 |
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9786610754236 |
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6610754233 |
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1280754230 |
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9781280754234 |
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