History of English : A Resource Book for Students.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contents Cross-Referenced -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Common Abbreviations -- Phonetic Symbols -- Acknowledgements -- A Introduction: An External History of English -- A1 Origins of English -- A1.1 The Isles Before English -- A1.2 The Romans in Britain -- A1.3 The Arrival of the Anglo- Saxons -- A1.4 English: What's in a Name? -- A1.5 Christianity Reaches England -- A1.6 Viking Raids -- A2 The History of English or The History of Englishes? -- A2.1 Old English Dialects -- A2.2 The Rise of West Saxon -- A2.3 Dialect Boundaries -- A3 Language Contact in the Middle Ages -- A3.1 1066 and All That -- A3.2 From Old English to Middle English -- A3.3 The Decline of French and the Rise of English -- A3.4 Middle English Dialects -- A4 From Middle English to Early Modern English -- A4.1 External Influences on Pronunciation -- A4.2 The Translation of the Bible into English -- A5 The Process of Standardisation -- A5.1 Dialects and Emerging Standards -- A5.2 Caxton and the Impact of the Printing Press -- A5.3 Dictionaries and Grammars -- A5.4 The Boundaries of Early Modern English -- A6 Colonialism, Imperialism and the Spread of English -- A6.1 English in the New World -- A6.2 The Expansion of the British Empire -- A7 Moves Towards Present Day English -- A7.1 The Industrial Revolution -- A7.2 The Oxford English Dictionary -- A7.3 A Spoken Standard -- A7.4 The Linguistic Consequences of War -- A7.5 Technology and Communication -- A8 Global English and Beyond -- A8.1 English: A Global Language -- A8.2 Globalisation and Changes in English -- A8.3 Assessing the Linguistic Impact of Historical Events -- B Development: A Developing Language -- B1 Understanding Old English -- B1.1 Spelling and Sound in Old English -- B1.2 The Vocabulary of Old English.

B1.3 Old English: A Synthetic Language -- B1.4 Case, Gender and Number -- B1.5 Old English Verbs -- B2 Varieties of Old English -- B2.1 Old English and Scots -- B2.2 Old English Dialectal Differences -- B3 The Emergence of Middle English -- B3.1 The Context of Change -- B3.2 Spelling and Sound in Middle English -- B3.3 Changes in the System of Inflections -- B3.4 Middle English Vocabulary -- B4 Sound Shifts -- B4.1 Speech Sounds -- B4.2 Changes in the Long Vowels -- B4.3 The Uniformitarian Principle in Relation to the Great Vowel Shift -- B4.4 Consequences of the Great Vowel Shift -- B5 Writing in Early Modern English -- B5.1 Orthography in Early Modern English -- B5.2 Some Grammatical Characteristics -- B5.3 Expanding the Lexicon -- B6 The Development of American English -- B6.1 Causes of Linguistic Development in the American Colonies -- B6.2 A Developing Standard -- B6.3 'Archaisms' in American English -- B6.4 The Beginnings of African American English -- B7 International English -- B7.1 Australian English -- B7.2 Indian English -- B7.3 Pidgins and Creoles on the West African Coast -- B8 The Globalisation of English -- B8.1 Attitudes Towards Global English -- B8.2 World Standard English -- B8.3 Fragmentation or Fusion? -- C Exploration: Exploring the History of English -- C1 The Roots of English -- C1.1 Language Family Trees -- C1.2 The Futhorc -- C1.3 Pronouncing Old English -- C1.4 Case -- C1.5 An Old English Riddle -- C2 Regions and Dialects -- C2.1 Dialectal Differences in an Old English Text -- C2.2 Place Names -- C3 From Old English to Middle English -- C3.1 Loanwords -- C3.2 The Canterbury Tales -- C3.3 A Middle English Pater Noster -- C4 Codification and Attitudes towards English -- C4.1 A Table Alphabeticall -- C4.2 English Orthographie -- C4.3 Problems with Prescriptivism -- C5 Further Elements of Grammar in Early Modern English.

C5.1 More on Pronouns -- C5.2 Gradable Adjectives -- C5.3 What Did Do Do? -- C6 English in the New World -- C6.1 Loanwords in American English -- C6.2 The Politics of Spelling -- C6.3 Early African American English -- C7 Present Day Englishes -- C7.1 Unknown Words from Australian English? -- C7.2 Circles of English -- C7.3 Enlarging the Lexicon -- C7.4 Tok Pisin -- C8 The Future of English -- C8.1 The Cost of Global English -- C8.2 Scare Stories: Declining Standards -- C8.3 Future Developments in English -- D Extension: Readings in the History of English -- D1 Vocabulary and Meaning in Old English -- D1.1 Old English: Semantics And Lexicon (Christian Kay) -- D1.2 Issues to Consider -- D2 Changes In Grammatical Gender -- D2.1 Order Out of Chaos? The English Gender Change in the Southwest Midlands as a Process of Semantically Based Reorganization (Merja Stenroos) -- D2.2 Issues to Consider -- D3 Medieval Multilingualism -- D3.1 Code-Switching In Early English Literature (Herbert Schendl) -- D3.2 Issues to Consider -- D4 Shifting Sounds -- D4.1 The Great Vowel Shift (Manfred Krug) -- D4.2 Issues to Consider -- D5 The Development of A Written Standard -- D5.1 Communities of Practice and Incipient Standardization in Middle English Written Culture (Colette Moore) -- D5.2 Issues to Consider -- D6 The Beginnings of Global English -- D6.1 The Story of the 'Spread' of English (Mario Saraceni) -- D6.2 Issues to Consider -- D7 Studying Recent Change in English -- D7.1 Choices Over Time: Methodological Issues in Investigating Current Change (Bas Aarts, Joanne Close And Sean Wallis) -- D7.2 Issues to Consider -- D8 English in the Future -- D8.1 The Future of New Euro- Englishes (David Crystal) -- D8.2 Issues to Consider -- Commentary on Activities -- Glossary of Linguistic Terms -- Timeline of External Events in the History of English -- Further Reading.

References -- Index.

History of English provides students with the historical and contextual background to the study of English and answers the questions of why and how the English language has come to be written and spoken as it is today.

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