The Cambridge History of the English Language by Richard M Hogg

The Cambridge History of the English Language by Richard M Hogg

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.

'.. far and away the biggest and most ambitious history of the language ever published, and to judge from the quality of the two volumes that have appeared, it will be an achievement of which all concerned can be thoroughly proud.' Randolph Quirk, London Review of Books Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Stanford University

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ISBN 13	9780521264747
ISBN 10	052126474X
Title	The Cambridge History of the English Language
Author	Richard M Hogg
Series	The Cambridge History Of The English Language
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1992-07-31
Number of pages	640
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