A companion to Baugh & Cable's History of the English language / Thomas Cable.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cable, Thomas, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--History--Problems, exercises, etc.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Other Title:

Companion to Baugh and Cable's History of the English language

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the English Language.Each chapter in the workbook corresponds directly to a chapter in the textbook and offers exercises, review questions, extensive supplementary examples, additional explanations and a range of sample extracts taken from texts of different periods. An additional 'pre-chapter' on the sounds of English also provides phonetic information and exercises that will prove useful throughout the book.This third edition has been revised alongside the textboo

Contents:

0. The sounds of English

1. English present and future

2. The Indo-European family of languages

3. Old English

4. Foreign influences on Old English

5. The Norman conquest and the subjection of English, 1066-1200

6. The reestablishment of English, 1200-1500

7. Middle English

8. The Renaissance, 1500-1650

9. The appeal to authority, 1650-1800

10. The nineteenth century and after

11. The English language in America.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 12, 2013).

ISBN:

1-134-42535-X

0-415-29894-6

0-203-99518-X

1-134-42536-8

9780203995181

OCLC:

870591838