The Origins and Development of the English language.
By: Thomas Pyles, Northwestern University
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich
Published: 1971
Place of publication: (s. l.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
First sentence: Language, man's greatest intellectual tool, is immensely old, precisely as old as our remotest human ancestors; for it is language that makes our species human, strikingly differentiating us from all other species.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: v; label: I
title: Facts, Assumptions and Misconceptions About Language
pagenum: 1; label: II
title: The Sounds and Spellings of Current English
pagenum: 29; label: III
title: Letters and Sounds: A Brief History of Writing
pagenum: 50; label: IV
title: The Backgrounds of English
pagenum: 78; label: V
title: The Old English Period (449-1100)
pagenum: 113; label: VI
title: The Middle English Period (1100-1500)
pagenum: 152; label: VII
title: The Modern English Period to 1800: Sounds and Spellings
pagenum: 181; label: VIII
title: The Modern English Period to 1800: Forms and Syntax
pagenum: 195; label: IX
title: Recent British and American English
pagenum: 229; label: X
title: New Words from Old: Coinages and Adaptations
pagenum: 275; label: XI
title: Foreign Elements in the English Word Stock
pagenum: 313; label: XII
title: Words and Meanings
pagenum: 342; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 364; title: Index of Modern English Words, Affixes, and Phrases
pagenum: 377; title: Subject Index
pagenum: 399