The History of English: A Student's Guide

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Автор: Singh, Ishtla

Название: The History of English: A Student's Guide

Издательство: L.: Hodder Education

Год: 2005

Язык: английский

Объем: 240 с.

Формат: pdf

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This book has no claim to having made significant changes in historical narratives of English: that is a task better left to much more expert authors and researchers. What the author has tried to do, however, is consider areas in conventional histories where ‘orthodox beliefs’ and approaches could make room for updated and/or somewhat different perspectives.

CONTENT

Introduction

1. English as a Changing Language

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Sound Change

1.3 Lexical Change

1.4 Semantic Change

1.5 Morphological Change

1.6 Syntactic Change

1.7 Study Questions

2. Language Families and the Pre-history of English

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Roots of English and Proto-Indo-European

2.3 Meeting the Ancestors I

2.4 Meeting the Ancestors II

2.5 Study Questions

3. Old English, 500-1100

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Social History

3.3 Anglo-Saxon Literature

3.4 The Language of Old English

3.5 Doing Anglo-Saxon Gender: Heroic Men and Monstrous Women

3.6 Study Questions

4. Middle English, 1100-1500

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Social History

4.3 Middle English Literature

4.4 The Language of Middle English

4.5 Contact and Change: Middle English Creolization

4.6 Study Questions

5. Early Modern English, 1500-1700

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Social History

5.3 Early Modern English Literature

5.4 The Language of Early Modern English

5.5 Contact and Change: English in Barbados

5.6 Study Questions

6. Modern English, 1700 onwards

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The Eighteenth Century and the Rise of the Prescriptive Tradition

6.3 NineteentlvCentury Contact and Change: The Case of Singlish

6.4 The Twenty-First Century and Beyond: Where Will English Boldly Go?

6.5 Conclusion

6.6 Study Questions

Bibliography

Index

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