The History of English in a Social Context
Subtitle: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 129)
Contributors: Dieter Kastovsky (Editor); Arthur Mettinger (Editor)
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9783110167078
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Grammar, Historical; English; Language; Linguistics; Congresses; English language; History; Social aspects
First sentence: When I chanced to look up the word excellent in a quotation from Shakespeare in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), I discovered the following position.