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He is edi-tor of volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the English Language (six volumes, 1992–2001) and one of the founding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics (also published by Cambridge University Press). He is author of Metrical Phonology with Christopher McCully (Cambridge University Press, 1986), A Grammar of Old ...
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Access to the full content requires a. The status of English in the early 21st century makes it hard to imagine that the language started out as an assortment of North Sea Germanic dialects spoken in parts of England only by immigrants from the continent. Itself soon under threat, first from the language (s) spoken by Viking invaders, then from ...
The final decades of the eighteenth century provide the starting point for this volume – a time when arguably less was happening to shape the structure of the English language than to shape attitudes towards it in a social climate that became increasingly prescriptive. Baugh and Cable (1993) appropriately entitle their chapter on the period ...
Mar 3, 1993 · A History of the English Language is a comprehensive exploration of the linguistic and cultural development of English, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Revised and updated, the fifth edition continues to provide students with a balanced and up-to-date overview of the subject. The new edition includes: Updated material on African ...
- Albert Croll Baugh, Thomas Cable
- 1954
For the moment the notion of relationship can be understood in a pre-scienti fic sense, as in “family relationship.”. The core vocabulary includes all of the common prepositions (by, for, to, on, in, of, with, among, etc.). They are learned well before the age of five. Similarly conjunctions like and, but, or.
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 four major periods: Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English.
