A Companion to the History of the English Language

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Haruko Momma, Michael Matto
John Wiley & Sons, May 6, 2011 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 736 pages
A Companion to the History of the English Language addresses the linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches to language study. The first text to offer a complete survey of the field, this volume provides the most up-to-date insights of leading international scholars.
  • An accessible reference to the history of the English language
  • Comprises more than sixty essays written by leading international scholars
  • Aids literature students in incorporating language study into their work
  • Includes an historical survey of the English language, from its Germanic and Indo- European beginnings to modern British and American English
  • Enriched with maps, diagrams, and illustrations from historical publications
  • Introduces the latest scholarship in the field
 

Contents

Studying HEL Today
3
How Has the Subject
11
Essential Linguistics
18
Segmental Histories 29
27
8
37
History of English Morphology
43
History of English Syntax
57
A History of the English Lexicon
69
Class Ethnicity and the Formation of Standard English Tony Crowley
303
The Transplantation of American English in Philippine Soil
313
English Latin and the Teaching of Rhetoric
323
News Discourse and the Language
334
English Outside England
347
English in Scotland
358
English in Ireland
366
English in Canada
380

History of English Prosody
81
What Can We Do With Them? Reinhard R K Hartmann
93
2
96
English Onomasiological Dictionaries and Thesauri
103
Johnson Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary
113
English as an IndoEuropean Language
127
English as a Germanic Language
142
OLD ENGLISH IN HISTORY CA 4501066
153
Late Old English 8991066 Mechthild Gretsch
165
Topics in Old English Dialects
172
Early Middle English 1066ca 1350 Thorlac TurvillePetre
184
Late Middle English ca 13501485 Seth Lerer
191
Varieties of Middle English
198
Early Modern English 14851660 Terttu Nevalainen
210
Varieties of Early Modern English
217
British English in the Long Eighteenth Century 16601830 Carey McIntosh
228
British English Since 1830
235
The Rise of Received Pronunciation
243
American English to 1865
254
American English Since 1865
263
Grammar 1830 24 1 Punch or the London Charivari August 27 1887
264
American English Dialects
274
Early Modern English Print Culture
284
Issues of Gender in Modern English
293
Australian and New Zealand English
389
South Asian English
404
English in the Caribbean
413
English in Africa
423
The AngloSaxon Poetic Tradition
435
Chaucers Literary Language
445
Shakespeares Literary Language
455
Jane Austens Literary English
464
Faulkners Language
479
The Struggle for the Word
495
Migration and Motivation in the Development of African American
509
147
526
The Subject Matter
531
Creoles and Pidgins
553
162
565
World Englishes in World Contexts
567
239
573
Style and Stylistics
585
266
603
Sociolinguistics
608
Cognitive Linguistics
618
Glossary of Linguistic Terms
630
Index
646
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About the author (2011)

Haruko Momma is Associate Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of The Composition of Old English Poetry (1997) and From Philology to English Studies: Language and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (2009).

Michael Matto is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Adelphi University. He has published articles on Old English language, literature, and culture, and is currently editing (with Greg Delanty) a collection of new literary translations of Old English poems (2009).

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