The Origins and Development of the English Language
ISBN: 9781428231450 | 1428231455
Edition: 6thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/2/2009
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THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE reflects current research and takes a linguistic-analysis approach with a focus on the facts of language rather than on theoretical approaches.
| Language and the English Language: An Introduction | |
| A Definition of Language | |
| Language as System | |
| Language as Signs | |
| Language as Vocal | |
| Language as Conventional | |
| Language as Human | |
| Language as Communication | |
| Other Characteristics of Language | |
| Why Study the History of English? | |
| The Sou... MORE | |
| The Organs of Speech | |
| Consonants of Current English | |
| Vowels of Current English | |
| Stress | |
| Kinds of Sound Change | |
| Causes of Sound Change | |
| The Phoneme | |
| Differing Transcriptions | |
| Letters and Sounds: A Brief History of Writing | |
| Ideographic and Syllabic Writing | |
| From Semitic Writing to the Greek Alphabet | |
| The Romans Adopt the Greek Alphabet | |
| The History of English Writing | |
| The Spelling of English Consonant Sounds | |
| The Spelling of English Vowel Sounds | |
| Spelling Pronunciations and Pronunciation Spellings | |
| Writing and History | |
| The Backgrounds of English | |
| Indo European Origins | |
| Language Typology and Language Families | |
| Non Indo European Languages | |
| Main Divisions of the Indo European Group | |
| Cognate Words in the Indo European Languages | |
| Inflection in the Indo European Languages | |
| Word Order in the Indo European Languages | |
| Major Changes from Indo European to Germanic | |
| First Sound Shift | |
| West Germanic Languages | |
| The Old English Period (449+1100) | |
| Some Key Events in the Old English Period | |
| History of the Anglo Saxons | |
| Pronunciation and Spelling | |
| Vocabulary | |
| Grammar, Concord, and Inflection | |
| Nouns | |
| Modifiers | |
| Pronouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Syntax | |
| Old English Illustrated | |
| The Middle English Period (1100+1500) | |
| Some Key Events in the Middle English Period | |
| The Background of the Norman Conquest | |
| The Reascendancy of English | |
| Foreign Influences on Vocabulary | |
| Middle English Spelling | |
| The Rise of a London Standard | |
| Changes in Pronunciation | |
| Changes in Grammar | |
| Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives | |
| Verbs | |
| Word Order | |
| Middle English Illustrated | |
| The Early Modern English Period (1500+1800): Society, Spellings, And Sounds | |
| Some Key Events in the Early Modern Period | |
| The Transition from Middle to Modern English | |
| The Orthography of Early Modern English | |
| The Great Vowel Shift | |
| Other Vowels | |
| Early Modern English Consonants | |
| Evidence for Early Modern Pronunciation | |
| Early Modern English Illustrated | |
| The Early Modern English Period (1500+1800): Forms, Syntax, And Usage | |
| The Study of Language | |
| Nouns | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Pronouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Prepositions | |
| Early Modern English Further Illustrated | |
| Late Modern English (1800+21St Century) | |
| Some Key Events in the Late Modern Period | |
| The National Varieties of English | |
| National Differences in Word Choice | |
| Syntactical and Morphological Differences | |
| British and American Purism | |
| National Differences in Pronunciation | |
| British and American Spelling | |
| Variation within National Varieties | |
| World English | |
| The Essential Oneness of All English | |
| Words And Meanings | |
| Semantics and Change of Meaning | |
| Generalization and Specialization | |
| Transfer of Meaning | |
| Pejoration and Amelioration | |
| Taboo and Euphemism | |
| The Fate of Intensifying Words | |
| Some Circumstances of Semantic Change | |
| Semantic Change Is Inevitable | |
| NEW WORDS FROM OLD | |
| Creating Words | |
| Combining Words: Compounding | |
| Combining Word Parts: Affixing | |
| Shortening Words | |
| Blending Words | |
| Shifting Words to New Uses | |
| Sources of New Words | |
| Foreign Elements In The English Word Stock | |
| Latin and Greek Loanwords | |
| Celtic Loanwords | |
| Scandinavian Loanwords | |
| French Loanwords | |
| Spanish and Portuguese Loanwords | |
| Italian Loanwords | |
| Germanic Loanwords | |
| Loanwords from the East | |
| Other Sources | |
| The Sources of Recent Loanwords | |
| English Remains English | |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| Glossary | |
| Index of Modern English Words and Affixes | |
| Index of Persons, Places, and Topics | |
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