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The Oxford history of English / Spine title: Oxford History of the English language History of English Edited by Lynda Mugglestone. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006. - xi, 485 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-471) and index.

Preliminaries: Before English / Terry Hoad -- Beginnings and Transitions: Old English / Susan Irvine -- Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend -- Middle English - Dialects and Diversity / Marilyn Corrie -- From Middle to Early Modern English / Jeremy Smith -- Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon -- Mapping Change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen -- The Babel of Renaissance English / Paula Blank -- Correctness and its Origins / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- English in the Nineteenth Century / Lynda Mugglestone -- Modern Regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton -- English Among the Languages / Richard W. Bailey -- English Worldwide in the Twentieth Century / Tom McArthur -- Into the Twenty-first Century / David Crystal.

ISBN: 0199249318 (alk. paper) 9780199249312

LCCN: 2006013471

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Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013337273 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English language--History.

LC Class. No.: PE1075 / .O97 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 420.9 / O98