The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 1 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 052126474X ISBN 13: 9780521264747

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Riassunto

The Cambridge History of the English Language is the first multi-volume work to provide a full account of the history of English. Its authoritative coverage extends from areas of central linguistic interest and concern to more specialised topics such as personal and place names. The volumes dealing with earlier periods are chronologically based, whilst those dealing with more recent periods are geographically based, thus reflecting the spread of English over the last 300 years. Volume 1 deals with the history of English up to the Norman Conquest, and contains chapters on Indo-European and Germanic, phonology and morphology, syntax, semantics and vocabulary, dialectology, onomastics, and literary language. Each chapter, as well as giving a chronologically-oriented presentation of the data, surveys scholarship in the area and takes full account of the impact of developing and current linguistic theory on the interpretation of the data. The chapters have been written with both specialists and non-specialists in mind; they will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of English.

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Recensione:

'... far and away the biggest and most ambitious history of the language ever published, and to judge from the quality of the two volumes that have appeared, it will be an achievement of which all concerned can be thoroughly proud.' Randolph Quirk, London Review of Books Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Stanford University

Descrizione del libro:

The first multi-volume work to provide a full and authoritative account of the history of the English language. Volume 1 deals with the history of English up to the Norman Conquest. Volume 2 covers the Middle English Period, describing and analysing developments in the language up to the introduction of printing.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 052126474X
• ISBN 13: 9780521264747
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 640
• Redattore: Hogg Richard M.