A History of the English Language: Revised editionJohn Benjamins Publishing Company, 03 ապր, 2014 թ. - 338 էջ The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a family tree for Germanic has been added, Celtic influence is highlighted much more, there is more on the origin of Chancery English, and internal and external change are discussed in much greater detail. The philosophy of the revised book remains the same with an emphasis on the linguistic history and on using authentic texts. My audience remains undergraduates (and beginning graduates). The goals of the class and the book are to come to recognize English from various time periods, to be able to read each stage with a glossary, to get an understanding of typical language change, internal and external, and to understand something about language typology through the emphasis on the change from synthetic to analytic. This book has a companion website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.183.website |
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5 From Old to Middle English | 95 |
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15001700 | 159 |
1700the present | 207 |
9 English around the world | 251 |
10 Conclusion | 283 |
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19th century adjectives adverbs ain’t American English analytic analytic language Appendix auxiliaries become Beowulf borrowed Britain British Celtic Chapter Chaucer consonants creoles Cursor Mundi dative dialects Dictionary discuss Early Modern English edition endings English spelling English texts English words epenthesis example external facsimile Figure forms French fricative Germanic gloss grammar grammatical words Grimm’s Law hath Indo-European influence instance internal changes king Late Middle English later Latin Layamon linguistic lists loans look marker meaning Middle English Modern English period morphology nouns occurs Old and Middle Old English palatalization Peterborough Chronicle phonetic pidgins plural prefixes prepositions prescriptive pronouns pronunciation Sanskrit Scandinavian Scottish English Section sentence Shakespeare shows singular sound changes speakers spoken subjunctive syntax synthetic synthetic language Table tense third person thou Universal Grammar varieties of English velar verb vocabulary voiced Vowel Shift word order Wulf and Eadwacer þæt þat