Introducing the history of the English language
Seth Lerer
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | xvi, 282 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | The Indo-European languages -- The Germanic languages -- Old English -- Middle English -- From Middle English to Modern English -- English in the age of Shakespeare and the King James Bible -- The age of regulation -- English in Great Britain, 1800-2000 -- American English, origins and attitudes -- English in the Black Atlantic -- Global English -- English in the twenty-first century.. - "This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society. It first offers a rigorous, approachable introduction to the building blocks of language itself and then traces English language usage's messy development in society, beginning with its origins in the Indo-European language family and continuing chronologically through the Old, Middle, Modern, and present-day forms"--
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| ISBN | 9781032129693. - 9781032129716
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