The Oxford History of English
ISBN: 9780199660162 | 0199660166
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/6/2013
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Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen scholars trace the history of English from its ancient Indo-European origins to the present. They cover the language's versions, written and spoken, revel in its rich variety over fifteen centuries, and chart its v... MORE
Introduction: A History of the English Language, Lynda Mugglestone
1. Preliminaries: before English, Terry Hoad
2. Beginnings and Transitions: Old English, Susan Irvine
3. Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French, Matthew Townend
4. Middle English - dialects and diversity, Marilyn Corrie
5. From Middle to Early Modern English, Jeremy Smith
6. Restructuring Renaissance English, April McMahon
7. Mapping Change in Tudor English, Terrtu Nevalainen... MORE
Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of History of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College. Recent books include Dictionaries. A Very Short Introduction and, edited with Freya Johnston, Johnson's Pendulum, both published by Oxford.
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