The English language : a linguistic history / Laurel J. Brinton & Leslie K. Arnovick.
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TextPublisher: Don Mills, Ont. ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xx, 522 p. : ill., maps 23 cmISBN: - 0195422058 (pbk.) :
- 420.9 22
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Studying the history of English -- 2. The sounds and writing of English -- 3. Causes and mechanisms of language change -- 4. The Indo-European language family and proto-Indo-European -- 5. Germanic and the development of Old English -- 6. The sounds and words of Old English -- 7. The grammar of Old English -- 8. The rise of Middle English : words and sounds -- 9. The grammar of Middle English and rise of a written standard -- 10. The sounds and inflections of early modern English -- 11. Early modern English verbal constructions and eighteenth-century prescriptivism -- 12. Modern English.
"Rooted in formal linguistics and designed for students with no background in languages or linguistics this text is ideal for full- and half-year courses in the history of the English language."--BOOK JACKET.
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