| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 485 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-471) and index. |
| Contents |
Preliminaries: Before English / Terry Hoad -- Beginnings and Transitions: Old English / Susan Irvine -- Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend -- Middle English -- Dialects and Diversity / Marilyn Corrie -- From Middle to Early Modern English / Jeremy Smith -- Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon -- Mapping Change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen -- The Babel of Renaissance English / Paula Blank -- Correctness and its Origins / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- English in the Nineteenth Century / Lynda Mugglestone -- Modern Regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton -- English Among the Languages / Richard W. Bailey -- English Worldwide in the Twentieth Century / Tom McArthur -- Into the Twenty-first Century / David Crystal. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| 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 |
| Summary |
The Oxford History of English traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its twenty-first century position as the world's first language. It describes the history of English within the British Isles, its changing roles in different places, and its rise to global pre-eminence. Fifteen experts describe the history of English within a chronological framework: they examine written varieties and the spoken language of everyday life; and they consider and. explain changes in words, meanings, grammar, and pronunciation. The book will appeal to everyone with a keen interest in the Eng. |
| Subject |
English language -- History.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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English language. (OCoLC)fst00910920
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mugglestone, Lynda.
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| Added Title |
History of English |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Oxford history of English. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0199249318 9780199249312 (DLC) 2006013471 (OCoLC)62307290 |
| ISBN |
9780191530371 (electronic bk.) |
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0191530379 (electronic bk.) |
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