History of EnglishPsychology Press, 2005 - 134 sider Whilst maintaining the accessibility for the beginner, the level of this second edition has been raised by the addition of much more detail, a greater focus on theories and controversies, and a clearer route to key works in the field. History of English:
Revised throughout, this updated edition contains a new internet resource section and an updated further reading section, to help readers take their study further. |
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Investigating change in English | 12 |
Borrowing words | 34 |
Changing meanings | 51 |
verbs | 67 |
Standardisation | 86 |
some answers | 113 |
general reading | 128 |
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accents affixes American English Anglo-Saxon apostrophe-s Appendix auxiliary verbs borrowing Britain British English Cambridge University Press Celtic Celtic languages compound consider Danish David Crystal's Encyclopedia DISCUSSION POINT EMod.E England English dialects English English English Language English Language Cambridge English London English spelling Estuary English etymological dictionary example EXERCISE fact factors FOLLOW-UP READING French genitive Germanic grammar history of English important inflections language change Latin Latin vocabulary letters linguistic level loanwords look Middle English Modern English negative Note nouns occurred Old English originally Oxford particular past participle period phonemes placenames plural prestige pronounced pronunciation Received Pronunciation referred regularisation relevant represent Routledge Saxon Scandinavian Scotland second-person pronouns semantic change sentence seventeenth century singular social speech sounds spoken Standard English standard written English standardisation Text thou tion today's English usage variety of English vowel Vowel Shift writing written standard