The English Language
A Linguistic History
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 14 April 2011
- ISBN 9780195431575
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages576 pages
- Size 229x182x22 mm
- Weight 875 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The English Language surveys the development of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the present day.
MoreLong description:
The English Language 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 four major periods: Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English. The second edition features a convenient quick reference guide for reference and review as well as a
comprehensive timeline of the major events in the development of English. In addition to fully updated print and web references directing students to the latest research, the new edition also offers enhanced discussion of a number of topics: the effects of media (radio, television, computers) on the language;
the socio-cultural causes of change; the expansion of the vocabulary of Modern English during the Renaissance; and the sources and dialects of Canadian English, including consideration of the effects of immigration on the language (illustrated with maps).
The second edition of The English Language : A Linguistic History has much to commend it in terms of its design and the usefulness of its supporting material...
Table of Contents:
List of Tables, Figures, and Sample Texts
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface
Studying the History of English
Overview
Objectives
Why study the History of English?
A Definition of Language
The Components of Language
Linguistic Change in English
The Nature of Linguistic Change
The Origin of Language
Attitudes towards Linguistic Change
Resources for Studying the History of English
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
Further Viewing
The Sounds and Writing of English
Overview
Objectives
The Sound of English
The Writing of English
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
Further Viewing
Causes and Mechanisms of Language Change
Overview
Objectives
Causes of Change
Mechanisms of Phonological Change
Mechanisms of Morphological and Syntactic CHange
Mechanisms of Semantic Change
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
Further Viewing
The Indo-European Language Family and Proto-Indo-European
Overview
Objectives
Classification of Languages
Language Families
The Indo-European Language Family
Proto-Language
Reconstruction
Proto-Indo-European
Nostratic Theory
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
Further Viewing
Germanic and teh Development of Old English
Overview
Objectives
Proto-Germanic
Grammatical and Lexical Changes from PIE to Germanic
Phonological Changes from PIE to Germanic
A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon England
The Records of Anglo-Saxons
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
The Words and Sounds of Old English
Overview
Objectives
The Word Stock of the Anglo-Saxons
The Orthographic System of Old English
The Phonological System of Old English
Stress
A Closer Look at the Language of an English Text
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
The Grammar of Old English
Overview
Objectives
The Nominal System
The Verbal System
Syntax
A Closer Look at the Language of an Old English Text
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
Further Viewing
The Rise of Middle English: Words and Sounds
Overview
Objectives
French and English in Medieval England
The Word Stock of Middle English
The Written Records of Middle English
Orthogrpahic Changes
Consonant Changes
Vowel Changes
A Closer Look at the Language of a Middle English Text
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
The Grammar of Middle English and Rise of a Written Standard
Overview
Objectives
The effects of Vowel Reduction
Grammatical Developments in Middle English
A Closer Look at the Language of a Middle English Text
Change from Synthetic to Analytic
Middle English as a Creole?
The Rise of a Standard Dialect
A Closer Look at the Language of a Middle English Text
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
The Words, Sounds, and Inflections of Early Modern English
Overview
Objectives
Early Modern English Vocabulary
The Great Vowel Shift
Changes in the Short Vowels of Dipthongs
A Closer Look at the Language of an Early Modern English Text
Changes in Consonants
Renaissance Respellings
Changes in Nominal Inflected Forms
Case Usage
Changes in Verbal Inflected Forms
A Closer Look at the Language of an Early Modern English Text
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
Early Modern English Verbal Constructions and Eighteenth-Century Prescriptivism
Overview
Objectives
Early Modern English Syntax
The Rise of Prescriptivism
Aims of the Eighteenth-Century Grammarians
Methods of the Eighteenth-Century Grammarians
The Question of Usage
Dictionaries
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
Further Viewing
Modern English
Overview
Objectives
Grammatical and Lexical changes since Early Modern English
Changes in Progress
The Effect of the New Media on English
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
Varieties of English
Overview
Objectives
The Development of National Varieties
Important Regional Varieties
Recommended Web Links
Further Reading
Further Viewing
Appendix A: Quick Reference Guide
Appendix B: Timeline of Historical, Literary, and Linguistic Events in the History of English
Exercise Key
Glossary of Linguistic Terms
References
Index
