A Companion to the History of the English LanguageHaruko Momma, Michael Matto 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.
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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 |
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