The Cambridge history of the English language. Volume 1, The beginnings to 1066 / edited by Richard M. Hogg.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Hogg, Richard M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English language--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 588 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Summary:

The Cambridge History of the English Language is the first multi-volume work to provide a full account of the history of English. Its authoritative coverage extends from areas of central linguistic interest and concern to more specialised topics such as personal and place names. The volumes dealing with earlier periods are chronologically based, whilst those dealing with more recent periods are geographically based, thus reflecting the spread of English over the last 300 years. Volume 1 deals with the history of English up to the Norman Conquest, and contains chapters on Indo-European and Germanic, phonology and morphology, syntax, semantics and vocabulary, dialectology, onomastics, and literary language. Each chapter, as well as giving a chronologically-oriented presentation of the data, surveys scholarship in the area and takes full account of the impact of developing and current linguistic theory on the interpretation of the data. The chapters have been written with both specialists and non-specialists in mind; they will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of English.

Contents:

• Introduction / Richard M. Hogg
• The place of English in Germanic and Indo-European / Alfred Bammesberger
• Phonology and morphology / Richard M. Hogg
• Syntax / Elizabeth Closs Traugott
• Semantics and vocabulary / Dieter Kastovsky
• Old English dialects / Thomas E. Toon
• Onomastics / Cecily Clark
• Literary language / Malcolm R. Godden.

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ISBN:

9781139055529 (ebook)

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