| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 305 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
Presents a history of the English language, beginning with the Old English of the seventh century, through the Great Vowel Shift between the time of Chaucer and Shakespeare, and the later full emergence of modern English. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
English language -- History.
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English language -- Etymology.
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English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100.
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English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500.
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Linguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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English language. (OCoLC)fst00910920
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English language -- Etymology.
(OCoLC)fst00911149
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English language -- Middle English.
(OCoLC)fst01710955
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English language -- Old English.
(OCoLC)fst01710958
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Linguistics. (OCoLC)fst00999202
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Linguistik.
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Sprache.
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Etymologie.
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Englisch.
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| Chronological Term |
450-1500
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lerer, Seth, 1955- Inventing English. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007 023113794X 9780231137942 (DLC) 2006030652 (OCoLC)71800512 |
| ISBN |
9780231510769 (electronic bk.) |
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0231510764 (electronic bk.) |
| Music No. |
EB00639488 Recorded Books |
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