The Cambridge history of the English language / general editor, Richard M. Hogg.
Volume 1, Beginnings to 1066: This volume deals with the history of English up to the Norman Conquest and contains chapters on Indo-European and Germanic, phonology and morphology, syntax, semantics and vocabulary, dialectology, onomastics, and literary language. Each chapter, as well as giving a ch...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1992-2001.
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| Summary: | Volume 1, Beginnings to 1066: This volume deals with the history of English up to the Norman Conquest and contains chapters on Indo-European and Germanic, phonology and morphology, syntax, semantics and vocabulary, dialectology, onomastics, and literary language. Each chapter, as well as giving a chronologically-oriented presentation of the data, surveys scholarship in the area and takes full account of the impact of developing and current linguistic theory on the interpretation of the data. The chapters have been written with both specialists and non-specialists in mind. Volume 3, 1476-1776: This volume begins at the time of the establishment of Caxtons first press in England and concludes with the American Declaration of Independence, the notional birth of the first (non-insular) extraterritorial English. It encompasses three centuries which saw immense cultural change over the whole of Europe: the late middle ages, the renaissance, the reformation, the enlightenment, and the beginnings of romanticism. During this time, Middle English became Early Modern English and then developed into the early stages of indisputably modern, if somewhat old-fashioned, English. In this book, the distinguished team of six contributors traces these developments, covering orthography and punctuation, phonology and morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, regional and social variation, and the literary language. The volume also contains a glossary of linguistic terms and an extensive bibliography. |
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| Item Description: | Vol. 1 edited by Richard M. Hogg. Vol. 2 edited by Norman Blake. Vol. 3 edited by Roger Lass. Vol. 4 edited by Suzanne Romaine. Vol. 5 edited by Robert Burchfield. Vol. 6 edited by John Algeo. |
| Physical Description: | 6 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521264782 9780521264785 0521264774 9780521264778 0521264766 9780521264761 0521264758 9780521264754 052126474X 9780521264747 0521264790 9780521264792 |