TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brinton,Laurel J.
AU  - Arnovick,Leslie K.
TI  - The English language: a linguistic history 
SN  - 0195422058 (pbk.) :
U1  - 420.9 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Don Mills, Ont., Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - History
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -