This volume spans Middle English, Early Modern English and the early stages of modern language.
Volume 5 covers the dialects of England since 1776, the historical development of English in the former Celtic-speaking countries, and English other countries.
This is a digital reprint of the 1970 edition, prepared by Mr Churchill, which provides a revision of the first thirteen chapters.
In this book, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English language, outlining its development over fifteen centuries.
(Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983); and P. Nihalani, R. K. Tongue & P. Hosali, Indian and British English: A Handbook of ... Men and Language (Harlow: Pearson Education, 3rd edn, 2004), and S. Ehrlich, M. Meyerhoff & J. Holmes (eds.) ...
An authoritative account of the history of English world-wide, essential for scholars and students alike.
A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.
The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries.
England Through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth Century Fiction . Basingstoke : Palgrave , 2001 . Booth , H. J. , and N. Rigby , eds . Modernism and Empire . Manchester University Press , 2000 . Bradbury , Malcolm , ed . The Novel Today .
This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language encompasses three centuries of immense cultural change, from Caxton in the late middle ages to the American Declaration of Independence...
Unlike other histories of the English language, this introduction cuts away traditional divisions into old, middle and modern English to chart the rise of and changes in standard English.