The Oxford History of the English Language

Table of contents

• The Oxford History of English i
• The Oxford History of English iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Abbreviations ix
• Key to Phonetic Symbols x
• Introduction - A History of English 1
• 1: Preliminaries: Before English 7
• 2: Beginnings and Transitions: Old English 32
• 3: Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French 61
• 4: Middle English—dialects and Diversity 86
• 5: From Middle to Early Modern English 120
• 6: Restructuring Renaissance English 147
• 7: Mapping Change in Tudor English 178
• 8: The Babel of Renaissance English 212
• 9: English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition 240
• 10: English in the Nineteenth Century 274
• 11: Modern Regional English in the British Isles 305
• 12: English Among the Languages 334
• 13: English World-Wide in the Twentieth Century 360
• 14: Into the Twenty-First Century 394
• A Chronology of English 415
• Notes on Contributors 429
• Acknowledgements 432
• References 433
• Index 473

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