Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modern English and modern times
  • The vocabulary of later modern English
  • Recording and regulating the lexicon : dictionaries from Dr. Johnson to the Oxford English dictionary
  • Syntactic change in later modern English
  • Grammars and grammarians
  • Phonological change in later modern English
  • Defining the standard of pronunciation : pronouncing dictionaries and the rise of RP
  • Beyond standard English : varieties of English in the later modern period.