The Oxford history of English

The Oxford history of English History of English edited by Lynda Mugglestone - Oxford Oxford University Press 2008 - 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 -- English at the onset of the normative tradition / 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

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