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"Various kinds of text which document the history of English form the focus of the current volume. Vernacular speech in writing and orality along with issues of literacy and manuscripts are highlighted. The value of text corpora in the collection and analysis of historical data is demonstrated in several chapters"--
List of contents
Volume I: General Editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to volume I Laura Wright and Raymond Hickey; Part I. The Context of English: 1. The Indo-European framework Donald Ringe; 2. English in its Germanic surrounding Wayne Harbert; 3. Language development in the old English period Julia Fernández Cuesta; 4. The geography of English in England Merja Steenroos; 5. Philology and the history of English Laura Wright and Raymond Hickey; Part II. Contact and External Influences: 6. Early contact with Celtic Raymond Hickey; 7. Latin in the early history of English Olga Timofeeva; 8. The Scandinavian period Richard Dance and Sarah Pons-Sanz; 9. French and English in the later middle ages Geert de Wilde; 10. Code-switching and language mixing Herbert Schendl; 11. Early standardisation Louise Sylvester; 12. Neoclassical borrowings and their influence on English Letitia Vezzosi and Luca Baratta; 13.Typological reorientation in the history of English Marion Elenbaas; Part III. The Long View by Levels and Areas of Language: 14. Historical phonology Donka Minkova; 15. Historical Morphology El¿bieta Adamczyk; 16. Historical syntax Bettelou Los; 17. Historical semantics Kathryn Allan; 18. Historical pragmatics Andreas Jucker; 19. Historical sociolinguistics Terttu Nevalainen and Tanja Säily; 20. Historical onomastics Richard Coates; Appendix: Recommended reading.
About the author
Laura Wright is Professor of English Language at the University of Cambridge. Among her recent book publications are English Grammar for Literature Students (2024), 'Social Life of Words (2023), The Multilingual Origins of Standard English (2020) and Sunnyside: A Sociolinguistic History of British House Names (2020).Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020), The Handbook of Language Contact (2020), Sounds of English Worldwide (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (2024).
