De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 318 p. The volume provides a wide-ranging account of Middle English, organized by linguistic level. Not only are the traditional areas of linguistic study explored in state-of-the-art chapters, but the volume also covers less traditional areas of study, including creolization, sociolinguistics, literary language (including the language of Chaucer),...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 281 p. The volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters investigate the state-of-the art in the linguistics of Old English and explore key areas of debate such as dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 264 p. The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional linguistic areas – phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics – and chapters on prosody, idioms, fixed expressions, onomastics,...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 346 p. This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern English, organized by linguistic level. The volume not only presents detailed outlines of the traditional language levels, it also explores key questions and debates, such as do-periphrasis, the Great Vowel Shift, pronouns and relativization, literary language (including the language...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 414 p. This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 192 p. The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today? In "Do You Speak English?" Simon Horobin investigates the evolution of the English language, examining how the language continues to adapt even today, as English continues...
William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2001. — 1310 p. — ISBN10: 0380713810, ISBN13: 978-0380713813 Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 220 p. - Organises topics thematically in a clear and accessible style for students - Includes features such as study questions and highlight boxes to consolidate learning - Focuses on English, while also including 'Change Elsewhere' comparisons This textbook approaches the history of English from a theoretical perspective. The book provides a brief...
John Benjamins, 2018. — 322 p. The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 189 p. This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change. It uses a number of case studies to provide insights into collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change....
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 545 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 110). Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled...
Peter Lang, 2014. — 410 p. This collection of articles by colleagues and students of Leiv Egil Breivik presents studies within both core and peripheral areas of English historical linguistics. Core topics covered include the development of existential there and related phenomena, word order, the evolution of adverbials, null subjects from Old to Early Modern English, pragmatics...
Routledge, 2017. — 205 p. This title was first published in 2001. Although 17th- and 18th-century English language theorists claimed to be correcting errors in grammar and preserving the language from corruption, this new study demonstrates how grammar served as an important cultural battlefield where social issues were contested. Author Linda C. Mitchell situates early modern...
Routledge, 2018. — 224 p. This title was first published in 2000: Insults, abuse, oaths, scatological and bawdy language - these form the subject of Lynn Forest-Hill's study on "bad" language in the late Middle Ages. She demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery plays and morality plays, dramatists used outrageous language with great sophistication and subtlety to create...
Spellmount, 2011. — 224 p. The First World War largely directed the course of the 20th century. Fought on three continents, the war saw 14 million killed and 34 million wounded. Its impact shaped the world we live in today, and the language of the trenches continues to live in the modern consciousness. One of the enduring myths of World War I is that the experience of the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. — 224 p. Did you know they started 'hearing through the grapevine' during the American Civil War, that 'ghettos' originated in Venice or that 'deadline' has a very sinister origin? Jam-packed with many amazing facts, Fighting Talk is a fascinating trip through the words and phrases that came to us from the military but nowadays are used by soldier...
Pocket Books, 2010. — 208 p. Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements. Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt...
Michael O'Mara, 2012. — 252 p. The Story of English illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia. Chronologically ordered and divided into six main...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 211 p. Written in a lucid, non-technical style, the book starts with the story of how the English language changed throughout the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters define Shakespeare's main artistic tools and illustrate their poetic and theatrical contributions: Renaissance rhetoric, imagery and metaphor, blank verse, prose speech, and...
Routledge, 2018. — 290 p. In 1945 Japan had to adjust very rapidly to sudden defeat, to the arrival of the American Occupation and to the encounter with the English language, together with a different outlook on many aspects of society and government. This scholarly book is based on in-depth interviews with people, now aged, who were school students at the time of the...
G. Routledge and Sons, 1909. — 271 p. A dictionary of old English slang, compiled by James Redding Ware (1832-1909, pseudonym Andrew Forrester), a British writer, novelist and playwright, known as a creator of one of the first female detectives in fiction. Thousands of words and phrases in existence in 1870 have drifted away, or changed their forms, or been absorbed, while as...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 488 p. A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language. Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 260 p. The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, "Joinings" explores the effect of compounds on style, pace, clarity, and genre in Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature. Jonathan Davis-Secord demonstrates how compounds affect the pacing of passages in "Beowulf", creating...
3rd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 528 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–263937–0. Newly updated to incorporate recent additions to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins provides a fascinating exploration of the origins and development of over 3,000 words in the English language. Drawing on Oxford's unrivalled dictionary research programme and language...
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 256 p. The North of England and northern-ness are elusive concepts, both academically and in popular perception. This volume in the English Surnames Survey series looks at what can be learned about the idea of the 'North' of England as a distinct identity from its surnames. The personal names from the north during the medieval/early modern period are...
Atlantic Books, 2016. — 352 p. In this original and highly accessible book, Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and culture, telling the amazing stories behind the original Latin meanings and uses of hundreds of our everyday words. Taking in every aspect of the ancient world, including science, religion, military...
London: Penguin Books, 2009. — 269 р. 'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 222 р. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 88). English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in this book. Framed within a novel framework combining evolutionary linguistics and optimality theory, the account proposed here argues that the...
Profile Books Ltd, 2018. — 199 p. — eISBN 978 1 78283 234 8 It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do....
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 301 p. — ISBN10: 0190660570, ISBN13: 978-0190660574. In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as "preposition" and "conjunction" now often confound children and adults alike....
The Mother Tongue (ISBN: 0-380-71543-0) is a book by Bill Bryson which compiles the history and origins of the English and the language's various quirks. It is subtitled English And How It Got That Way. The book discusses the Indo-European origins of English, the growing status of English as a global language, the complex etymology of English words, the dialects of English,...
Routledge, 2016. — 303 p. — (Learning about Language). — ISBN10: 1138795453, 13 978-1138795457. The History of Early English provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English language from its beginnings until the end of the Early Modern English period. Taking an activity-based approach, this text ensures that students learn by engaging with...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 688 p. The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System provides a comprehensive account of the English writing system, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future. Twenty-nine chapters written by specialists from around the world cover core linguistic and psychological aspects, and also include...
Flanker Press, 2018. — 317 p. — ASIN B07HFHZ19Y. A book for those who come from away and for us livyers. This work brings together words from indigenous cultures and words spoken and recorded in English from the time of the European discovery of the New Founde Lande in 1497. The dominant European language became English, imported from the West Country of England and enriched by...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 1332 p. This book presents the history of English from its obscure Indo-European roots to its twenty-first century position as the world's first language. It shows how English evolved in the British Isles and how it spread to the United States and through the old British empire to every corner of the world. It examines the different versions and...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 171 (conv) p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN10: 0198709250, ISBN13: 978-0198709251. The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today? In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. — ISBN13: 978-0-19-924931-2; ISBN10: 0-19-924931-8. Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that...
Picador, 2009. — 434 p. — ISBN10: 0312428561. — ISBN13: 978-0312428563. Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think about the origins of the words we use? Have you ever thought about which words in English...
Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, 2005. — 608 p. — ISBN: 1585677191 The groundbreaking history of the English language, fusing chronological with anecdotal and etymological accounts of individual word-histories, to create not one story, but many stories. The English language is now accepted as the global lingua franca of the modern age, spoken or written in by over a...
Gotham Books, 2008. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59240-395-0.
This is a curious book, being on an academic subject, but not written in an academic style. Enjoyment lies in the lively and vigorous presentation of its ideas.
The main topic is the influence that there is likely to have been on Old English (and hence on the language we now use) from the indigenous Celtic tribes and the...
London: John Murray, 2011. Изначально электронный формат.
Hitchings has a descriptivist view that languages evolve over time. This is in direct contrast to the prescriptivist view that there is one right way to speak and write. He cites historical references for why some things are improper, i.e., ending a sentence with a preposition or the use of contractions in speech and...
ABC Book, 2004. — 252 p. — ISBN: 0521548322. English is the most creative, changeable and imaginative of languages. Some words are invented to meet temporary needs and are quickly discarded; others carry meanings hundreds of years old. Language fascinates us, and we spend a lot of time playing with it, concocting everything from puns, riddles and secret languages to wonderful...
Profile Books Ltd, 2011. - 320 р.
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages.
In The Story of English in 100 Words, an entertaining history of the world’s most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of...
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История английского языка / History of the English Language