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Inventing English : a portable history of the language /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this language : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Inventing English : a portable history of the language /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Inventing English : a portable history of the language /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Inventing English : a portable history of the language /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Horrid, Hooting Stanzas: Lexicography and Literature in American English -- 14. Antses in the Sugar: Dialect and Regionalism in American English -- 15. …”
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Germanic languages and linguistic universals /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Some general evolutionary and typological characteristics of the Germanic languages / John Ole Askedal -- Characteristics of Germanic languages / Tadao Shimomiya -- Old English pronouns for possession / Yasuaki Fujiwara -- Reflexive binding as agreement and its locality conditions within the phase system / Hiroshi Hasegawa -- Movement in the passive nominal : a morphological analysis / Junji Hamamatsu -- On tritransitive verbs / Ryohei Mita -- On the cognitive dependence phenomena observed in English expressions / Shuichi Takeda -- On pronoun referents in English / Hiromi Azuma -- Relative and interrogative who/whom in contemporary professional American English / Yoko Iyeiri and Michiko Yaguchi -- New functions of FrameSQL for multilingual FrameNets / Hiroaki Sato.…”
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Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Cambridge, 6-9 April 1987 : dedicated to the memory of James Peter Thorne (1933-1988) /
Published 1990Table of Contents: “…PAPERS FROM THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; IN MEMORIAM JAMES PETER THORNE 1933-1988 JOHN LYONS; PREFACE; LIST OF PARTICIPANTS; RESTANDARDISATION IN MIDDLE SCOTS; BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH: ODI ET AMO; THE STYLISTIC FUNCTION OF ME GAN RECONSIDERED; HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY; THE ASSESSMENT OF LEXICAL MORTALITY AND REPLACEMENT BETWEEN OLD AND MODERN ENGLISH…”
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