| List of Illustrations | vii | |
| List of Abbreviations | ix | |
| Key to Phonetic Symbols | x | |
| Introduction: A History of English Lynda Mugglestone | 1 | |
| 1. | Preliminaries: Before English Terry Hoad | 7 |
| 2. | Beginnings and Transitions: Old English Susan Irvine | 32 |
| 3. | Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French Matthew Townend | 61 |
| 4. | Middle English—Dialects and Diversity Marilyn Corrie | 86 |
| 5. | From Middle to Early Modern English Jeremy J. Smith | 120 |
| 6. | Restructuring Renaissance English April McMahon | 147 |
| 7. | Mapping Change in Tudor English Terttu Nevalainen | 178 |
| 8. | The Babel of Renaissance English Paula Blank | 212 |
| 9. | English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade | 240 |
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Publication information:
Book title: The Oxford History of the English Language.
Contributors: Lynda Mugglestone - Editor.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: Oxford, England.
Publication year: 2006.
Page number: v.
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