The English language : a linguistic history /
"The English Language: A Linguistic History surveys the development of the English language from its Indo-European past to the present day. It covers the entire history of the English language beginning with its prehistoric origins in Proto-Indo-European and includes thorough coverage of its fo...
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| Idioma: | English |
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Don Mills, Ontario :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edição: | Third edition. |
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Sumário:
- Studying the history of English
- Sounds and sound change in English
- Causes and mechanism of language change
- The Indo-European language family and proto-Indo-European
- Germanic and the development of old English
- The words and sounds of old English
- The grammar of old English
- The rise of middle English: words and sounds
- The grammar of middle English and the rise of a written standard
- The words, sounds, and inflections of early modern English
- Early modern English verbal constructions and Eighteen-century prescriptivism
- Modern English
- Varieties of English.