The Origins and Development of the English Language

John Algeo

Cengage Learning, Feb 2, 2009 - Fiction - 368 pages

Updated to reflect current research and rewritten for further clarity of presentation, the sixth edition of the best-selling THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to take a linguistic-analysis approach and focuses on the facts of language rather than on theoretical approaches.
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About the author

John Algeo is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Georgia. He is past president of the American Dialect Society, the Dictionary Society of North America, and the American Name Society. He was an associate editor of the OXFORD COMPANION TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE and editor of Volume 6 of the CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: ENGLISH IN NORTH AMERICA. He was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow at University College London and is author of the 2006 Cambridge book BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH? A HANDBOOK OF WORD AND GRAMMAR PATTERNS.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Origins and Development of the English Language
• Author: John Algeo
• Edition: 6, illustrated
• Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2009
• ISBN: 1428231455, 9781428231450
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General