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The Oxford History of English

ISBN: 9780199249312 | 0199249318
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 9/28/2006

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This book presents the history of English from its obscure Indo-European roots to its twenty-first century position as the world's first language. It shows how English evolved in the British Isles and how it spread to the United States and through the old British empire to every corner of the world. It examines the different versions and roles of the language in every part of the globe and shows how English rose to international pre-eminence. With approachable but impeccable scholarship fourteen experts chart the history of written and spoken E... MORE
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List of Illustrations
vii
List of Abbreviations
ix
Key to Phonetic Symbolsx
Introduction: A History of English1(6)
Lynda Mugglestone
Preliminaries: Before English
7(25)
Terry Hoad
Beginnings and Transitions: Old English
32(29)
Susan Irvine
Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French
61(25)
Matthew Townend
Middle English---Dialects and Diversity
86(34)
Marilyn Corrie
From Middle to Early Modern English
120(27)
Jeremy J. Smith
Restructuring Renaissance English
147(31)
April McMahon
Mapping Change in Tudor English
178(34)
Terttu Nevalainen
The Babel of Renaissance English
212(28)
Paula Blank
English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition
240(34)
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
English in the Nineteenth Century
274(31)
Lynda Mugglestone
Modern Regional English in the British Isles
305(29)
Clive Upton
English Among the Languages
334(26)
Richard W. Bailey
English World-wide in the Twentieth Century
360(34)
Tom McArthur
Into the Twenty-first Century
394(21)
David Crystal
A Chronology of English415(14)
Notes on Contributors429(3)
Acknowledgements432(1)
References433(40)
Index473

Lynda Mugglestone is News International Lecturer in Language and Communication, University of Oxford and Fellow in English Language and Literature, Pembroke College, Oxford.

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