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Author : Albert C. Baugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book “A” History of the English Language written by Albert C. Baugh and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Croll Baugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780133891553
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A History of the English Language written by Albert Croll Baugh and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Fennell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631200734
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A History of English written by Barbara Fennell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001-02-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language.
Author : Norman Blake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349249548
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book A History of the English Language written by Norman Blake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-10-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other histories of the English language, this introduction cuts away traditional divisions into old, middle and modern English to chart the rise of and changes in standard English. It covers the English and historical background, changes in phonology, vocabulary and syntax, and offers close analyses of individual texts of English from a wide range of periods. The final chapter focuses on the place of English as a world language and the growing array of the varieties of English spoken today. A useful appendix gives definitions of technical terms and phonetic symbols.
Author : Simon Horobin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198754272
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book How English Became English written by Simon Horobin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English language is a subject of fascination for many people and is frequently the subject of lively debate in the media. In this book, Simon Horobin considers the rich history of the English language, before moving to discuss its role, status, and future.
Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101873361
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The English and Their History written by Robert Tombs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.
Author : Melvyn Bragg
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611450071
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Adventure of English written by Melvyn Bragg and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the English language traces its evolution from a Germanic dialect around 500 A.D. to its modern form, noting the influence of such groups and individuals as early Anglo-Saxon tribes, Alfred the Great, and William Shakespeare.
Author : Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383096689X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Virtual Linguistics Campus written by Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. Aaron Smith
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 155481362X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book This Language, A River written by K. Aaron Smith and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. Developed over years of undergraduate teaching, the book helps students both to grasp traditional histories of English and to extend and complicate those histories. Exercises throughout provide opportunities for puzzling out concepts, committing terms and data to memory, and applying ideas. A comprehensive glossary and up-to-date bibliographies help to guide further study.
Author : Thomas R. Lounsbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Standard of Usage in English written by Thomas R. Lounsbury and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. W. Burchfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198604037
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The English Language written by R. W. Burchfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The English language is like a fleet of juggernaut trucks that goes on regardless.' In this fascinating book, Robert Burchfield, editor of the four-volume Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, expertly stresses both the resilience and flexibility of the English language, tracing its history from the 5th century AD to the present day. From the days of runes to the origins of printing, through social, religious, political and industrial change in the eighteenth century, through the rise of the British Empire and the development of world English, and into the twentieth-century, the English language has undergone sweeping changes. 'the best brief survey I have read on the development of English' Anthony Burgess 'an expert, absorbing guide to the English-speaking world's biggest asset' Sunday Times 'It can be recommended without reservation to all who are sensitive to the subtlety, richness and power of the language they speak' British Book News 'so skilfully written that it must surely take a place among the best three or four books ever written about our language' Birmingham Post
Author : Henry Cecil Wyld
Publisher : Spargo Press
ISBN 13 : 1409726282
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book A Short History of English written by Henry Cecil Wyld and published by Spargo Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270430
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book A History of the English Language written by Elly van Gelderen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a family tree for Germanic has been added, Celtic influence is highlighted much more, there is more on the origin of Chancery English, and internal and external change are discussed in much greater detail. The philosophy of the revised book remains the same with an emphasis on the linguistic history and on using authentic texts. My audience remains undergraduates (and beginning graduates). The goals of the class and the book are to come to recognize English from various time periods, to be able to read each stage with a glossary, to get an understanding of typical language change, internal and external, and to understand something about language typology through the emphasis on the change from synthetic to analytic. This book has a companion website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.183.website
Author : Tore Janson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199604282
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The History of Languages written by Tore Janson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does not discuss the Semitic languages.
Author : Charles Barber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107693934
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The English Language written by Charles Barber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling text by Charles Barber recounts the history of the English language from its ancestry to the present day.
Author : Christopher Upward
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444342975
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The History of English Spelling written by Christopher Upward and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of English Spelling “Fifty years ago, G. H. Vallins contributed a book on spelling to the Language Library. Since then, there have been several major surveys, and new opportunities to explore the history of English words. The time is therefore ripe for a fresh presentation, and this is what George Davidson has done, building on the huge collection of historical data amassed by Christopher Upward, and giving it narrative shape. I have been waiting for a source-book like this for a long time, and I’m delighted that it has found a place in this series.” David Crystal, Language Library series editor Few languages are riddled with as many spelling inconsistencies and irregularities as English. Why is there such dissonance between the sounds of English and the spelling used to represent them? The answer lies in the history of the language itself. The History of English Spelling reveals the rich and complex history of Modern English spelling, tracing its origins and development from Old English up to the present day. The book provides a highly detailed, letter-by-letter analysis of the Old English basis of Modern English spelling, followed by in-depth coverage of the contributions from French, Latin, Greek and the many other languages that have contributed to current orthography. Upward and Davidson also explore events in the socio-political history of England as the setting for developments in spelling, along with the works of a number of lexicographers (especially Johnson and Webster), and various proposals for spelling reform. The History of English Spelling reveals the richness of the complex and often frustrating alphabetic spelling system used in the English language. A complementary website with additional research material can be found at www.historyofenglishspelling.info
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1784161861
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Made in America written by Bill Bryson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson tells the story of how American arose out of the English language, and along the way, de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how they were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the words G-string, blockbuster, poker and snafu. 'A tremendously sassy work, full of zip, pizzazz and all those other great American qualities' Will Self, Independent on Sunday
