A companion to the history of the English language / edited by Haruko Momma and Michael Matto. - xxxiii, 690 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. - Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 54 . - Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 54. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- History, English, Language: Studying HEL Today / History of the History of the English Language: How Has the Subject Been Studied? / Essential Linguistics / Linguistic Survey -- Phonology: Segmental Histories / History of English Morphology / History of English Syntax / A History of the English Lexicon / History of English Prosody / English Semantics and Lexicography -- Dictionaries Today: What Can We Do With Them? / English Onomasiological Dictionaries and Thesauri / Johnson, Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary / Pre-history of English -- English as an Indo-European Language / English as a Germanic Language / English in History: England and America -- Old English in History -- Early Old English / Late Old English / Topics in Old English Dialects / Middle English in History -- Early Middle English / Late Middle English / Varieties of Middle English / Early Modern English in History -- Early Modern English / Varieties of Early Modern English / Modern British English in History -- British English in the Long Eighteenth Century / British English Since 1830 / The Rise of Received Pronunciation / American English in History -- American English to 1865 / American English Since 1865 / American English Dialects / Topics in History -- Early Modern English Print Culture / Issues of Gender in Modern English / Class, Ethnicity, and the Formation of “Standard English” / The Transplantation of American English in Philippine Soil / English, Latin, and the Teaching of Rhetoric / English in Mass Communications: News Discourse and the Language of Journalism / English in History: English Outside England and the United States -- British Isles and Ireland -- English in Wales / English in Scotland / English in Ireland / English in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- English in Canada / Australian and New Zealand English / Colonial and Post-colonial English -- South Asian English / English in the Caribbean / English in Africa / Literary Languages -- The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition / “In swich englissh as he can”: Chaucer's Literary English / Shakespeare's Literary Language / Jane Austen's Literary English / Joyce's English / Faulkner's Language / Twixt the Twain: East-West in Rushdie's Zubaan-Tongue / Toni Morrison: The Struggle for the Word / Issues in Present-Day English -- Migration and Motivation in the Development of African American Vernacular English / Latino Varieties of English / Teaching English to Native Speakers: The Subject Matter of Composition / Earning as well as Learning a Language: English and the Post-colonial Teacher / Creoles and Pidgins / World Englishes in World Contexts / Further Approaches to Language Study -- Style and Stylistics / Corpus-Based Linguistic Approaches to the History of English / Sociolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics / Michael Matto and Haruko Momma -- Thomas Cable -- Mary Blockley -- Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell -- Robert McColl Millar -- Olga Fischer -- Geoffrey Hughes -- Geoffrey Russom -- Reinhard R. K. Hartmann -- Werner Hullen -- Charlotte Brewer -- Philip Baldi -- Robert D. Fulk -- Daniel Donoghue -- Mechthild Gretsch -- Lucia Kornexl -- Thorlac Turville-Petre -- Seth Lerer -- Jeremy J. Smith -- Terttu Nevalainen -- Jonathan Hope -- Carey McIntosh -- Richard W. Bailey -- Lynda Mugglestone -- David Simpson -- Walt Wolfram -- Gavin Jones -- John N. King -- Deborah Cameron -- Tony Crowley -- Br. Andrew Gonzalez, FSC -- Michael Matto -- Philippa K. Smith and Allan Bell -- Marion Loffler -- J. Derrick McClure -- Terence Patrick Dolan -- John Edwards -- Pam Peters -- Kamal K. Sridhar -- Donald Winford -- Alamin M. Mazrui -- Fred C. Robinson -- John F. Plummer -- Adam N. McKeown -- Mary Poovey -- Laurent Milesi -- Noel Polk -- Tabish Khair -- Justine Tally -- Mary B. Zeigler -- Robert Bayley -- Mary Soliday -- Eugene Chen Eoyang -- Salikoko S. Mufwene -- Braj B. Kachru -- David L. Hoover -- Anne Curzan -- Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Dirk Geeraerts. Part I. 1. 2. 3. Part II. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part III. 9. 10. 11. Part IV. 12. 13. Part V. Section 1. 14. 15. 16. Section 2. 17. 18. 19. Section 3. 20. 21. Section 4. 22. 23. 24. Section 5. 25. 26. 27. Section 6. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. Part VI. Section 1. 34. 35. 36. Section 2. 37. 38. Section 3. 39. 40. 41. Part VII. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. Part VIII. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. Part IX. 56. 57. 58. 59.

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English language--History

PE1072 / .C56 2008

420.9