The Oxford history of English
By: edited by Lynda Mugglestone.
Contributors: Mugglestone, Lynda.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780199544394; 9780199249312
Subjects: English language -- History.
Other titles: History of English; History of English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-471) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries: Before English / Terry Hoad; title: Beginnings and Transitions: Old English / Susan Irvine; title: Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend; title: Middle English - Dialects and Diversity / Marilyn Corrie; title: From Middle to Early Modern English / Jeremy Smith; title: Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon; title: Mapping Change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen; title: The Babel of Renaissance English / Paula Blank; title: English at the onset of the normative tradition / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade; title: English in the Nineteenth Century / Lynda Mugglestone; title: Modern Regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton; title: English Among the Languages / Richard W. Bailey; title: English Worldwide in the Twentieth Century / Tom McArthur; title: Into the Twenty-first Century / David Crystal.