The Oxford history of English
By: edited by Lynda Mugglestone.
Contributors: Mugglestone, Lynda.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780199249312
Subjects: English language -- History
Other titles: History of English
Description: "The Oxford History of English traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its position as the world's first language. In accounts made vivid with examples from an immense range of documentary evidence, including letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen experts describe the history of English in its versions, written and spoken. They reveal the language's rich and protean variety over the centuries and chart the progress of all its versions, standard, regional, and international. They describe and explain its constantly changing sounds, words, meanings, and grammar."--BOOK JACKET
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 J. 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 world-wide in the twentieth century / Tom McArthur; title: Into the twenty-first century / David Crystal.