A Biography of the English Language
ISBN: 9780495906414 | 0495906417
Edition: 3rdFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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The third edition of A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural events; and the English of the past has everywhere left its traces on present-day English. By uncovering the language's past, one can better communicate with it.
| Introduction | |
| Phonology | |
| Writing | |
| Language Families and Indo-European Languages | |
| Old English (AD 450 - 1100) | |
| Middle English (1100 - 1500) | |
| Early Modern English (1500 - 1800) | |
| Present-Day English (1800 - ) | |
| English Around the World | |
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