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The Oxford history of English /
The Oxford History of English traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its twenty-first century position as the world's first language. It describes the history of English within the British Isles, its changing roles in different places, and its rise to global pre-eminence. F...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: a history of English / Lynda Mugglestone
- Preliminaries: before English / Terry Hoad
- Beginnings and transitions: old English / Susan Irvine
- Contacts and conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend
- Middle English--dialects and diversity / Marilyn Corrie
- From middle to early modern English / Jeremy Smith
- Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon
- Mapping change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen
- The Babel of Renaissance English / Paula Blank
- English at the onset of the normative tradition / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
- English in the nineteenth century / Lynda Mugglestone
- Modern regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton
- English among the languages / Richard W. Bailey
- English world-wide in the twentieth century / Tom McArthur
- Into the twenty-first century / David Crystal.