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A Companion to the History of the English Language.

A Companion to the History of the English Language addresses the linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches to language study. The first text to offer a complete survey of the field, this volume provides the most up-to-date insights of leading international scholars.: An accessible refere...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Momma, Haruko
Other Authors: Matto, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Note on Phonetic Symbols and Orthography; A Timeline for HEL; Part I: Introduction; 1: History, English, Language: Studying HEL Today; 2: History of the History of the English Language: How Has the Subject Been Studied?; 3: Essential Linguistics; Part II: Linguistic Survey; 4: Phonology: Segmental Histories; 5: History of English Morphology; 6: History of English Syntax; 7: A History of the English Lexicon; 8: History of English Prosody; Part III: English Semantics and Lexicography.
  • 9: Dictionaries Today: What Can We Do With Them?10: English Onomasiological Dictionaries and Thesauri; 11: Johnson, Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary; Part IV: Pre-history of English; 12: English as an Indo-European Language; 13: English as a Germanic Language; Part V: English in History: England and America; Section 1: Old English in History (ca. 4501066); Section 2: Middle English in History (10661485); Section 3: Early Modern English in History (1485.