num_pages: 384
description: Updated to reflect current research and rewritten to further enhance the clarity of presentation, the fifth edition of this best-seller continues to take a linguistic-analysis approach as well and focus on the facts of language rather than theoretical approaches.
language: English
title: The Origins and Development of the English Language
titlecomplete: The Origins and Development of the English Language
genres: Language, Philosophy, Science, School, Reference, Linguistics, Textbooks, Social Science, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 268
publisher: Cengage Learning