牛津英语语言史

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Key to Phonetic Symbols

Introduction: A History of English

Lynda Mugglestone

1.Preliminaries: Before English

Terry Hoad

2.Beginnings and Transitions: Old English

Susan Irvine

3.Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French

Matthew Townend

4.Middle English——Dialects and Diversity

Marilyn Corrie

From Middle to Early Modern English

Jeremy J.Smith

6.Restructuring Renaissance English

April McMahon

7.Mapping Change in Tudor English

Terttu Nevalainen

8.The Babel of Renaissance English

Paula Blank

9.English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

10.English in the Nineteenth Century

Lynda Mugglestone

11.Modern Regional English in the British Isles

Clive Upton

12.English Among the Languages

Richard W Bailey

13.English World-wide in the Twentieth Century

Tom McArthur

14.Into the Twenty-first Century

David Crystal

A Chronology ofEnglish

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

References

Index

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