A Companion to Baugh & Cable's A History of the English Language
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In the spirit of the main text, the Companion pays attention to the linguistic effects of
social, political, and literary events. The maps are designed to set the geographical contexts for
these cultural influences during the Indo-European period, the Middle Ages, and the eras of the
British Empire and of American ascendancy. The pre-chapter on "The Sounds of English"
contains phonetic information and exercises that should be helpful in most of the chapters that
follow. The "Questions for Review" that begin each chapter give an overview of the most
important topics in each period and serve as a checklist of items that should be familiar in any
discussion of the history of English. Now that we are into the second decade of the twenty-first
century, a twelfth chapter has been added to the main text. Because English as a global language
is a central issue in its history at this point, the questions for review in Chapter 12 raise topics for
discussion concerning the major languages of the world, prospects for the future, and less
obvious issues such as the relative "complexity" of languages.
The headings for most sections are followed by a corresponding section number in the
History. On many topics the amount of exposition preceding the exercises varies more or less
inversely with the amount in the History, the idea being to have a full discussion of important
topics without a duplication between the two books.
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Content
Preface
0 The Sounds of English
0.1 Phonetic Symbols
0.2 The Vocal Tract
0.3 English Consonants
0.4 English Vowels
0.5 Transcription
1 English Present and Future
1.1 Questions for Review
2 The Indo-European Family of Languages
2.1 Questions for Review
2.2 Grimm's Law (§14)
2.3 The Indo-European Family (§§15-24)
2.4 The Indo-Europeans (§26)
3 Old English
3.1 Questions for Review
3.2 Old English Consonants (§38)
3.3 Old English Vowels (§38)
3.4 Old English Suprasegmentals
3.5 Old English Cases (§40)
3.6 Old English Nouns (§§41-42)
3.7 Nouns in Sentences (§41)
3.8 Old English Adjectives (§43)
3.9 Old English Pronouns (§45)
3.10 Old English Strong Verbs (§46)
3.11 Old English Syntax and Meter (§51)
3.12 The Language Illustrated (§47)
Ælfric,
West Saxon Gospels,
Ohthere's Voyage,
4 Foreign Influences on Old English
4.1 Questions for Review
4.2 Dating Latin Loanwords through Sound Changes (§57)
i-Umlaut,
Breaking,
4.3 Scandinavian Loanwords (§§72, 75-76)
5 The Norman Conquest and the Subjection of English, 1066-1200
5.1 Questions for Review
6 The Reestablishment of English, 1200-1500
6.1 Questions for Review
7 Middle English
7.1 Questions for Review
7.2 From Old to Middle English: Vowels (§112)
7.2.1 Changes in the Old English Vowels,
7.2.2 Formation of New Diphthongs,
7.2.3 Lengthening and Shortening,
7.3 From Old to Middle English: Consonants (§112)
7.4 From Old English to Middle English: Vowel Reduction, Morphology,
and Syntax in the Peterborough Chronicle (§§113, 123)
7.5 Chaucer's Pronunciation
7.6 Middle English Nouns (§114)
7.7 Middle English Adjectives (§115)
7.8 Middle English Personal Pronouns (§116)
7.9 Strong and Weak Verbs in Middle English (§§117-121)
7.10 Middle English Verbal Inflections (§117)
7.11 Middle English Dialects (§148 and Appendix A)
7.12 A Middle English Manuscript
7.13 The Language Illustrated
The Wycliffe Bible,
Chaucer,
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
8 The Renaissance, 1500-1650
8.1 Questions for Review
8.2 The Great Vowel Shift (§154)
8.3 Dictionaries of Hard Words (§174)
8.4 Shakespeare's Pronunciation (§177)
8.5 Nouns (§180)
8.6 Adjectives (§181)
8.7 Pronouns (§182)
8.8 Prepositions (§184)
8.9 Strong and Weak Verbs (§183)
8.10 Questions, Negatives, and the Auxiliary Do (§183)
8.11 The Language Illustrated
King James Bible,
Shakespeare,
9 The Appeal to Authority, 1650-1800
9.1 Questions for Review
9.2 Johnson's Dictionary (§197)
9.3 Universal Grammar (§198)
10 The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
10.1 Questions for Review
10.2 Self-Explaining Compounds (§217)
10.3 Coinages (§220)
10.4 Slang (§225)
10.5 English World-Wide (§229)
10.6 Pidgins and Creoles (§230)
10.7 Gender Issues and Pronominal Change (§233)
10.8 The Language Illustrated (§§228-229)
Geordie,
Scots,
Jamaican English,
English in Asia and Africa,
11 The English Language in America
11.1 Questions for Review
11.2 The American Dialects (§250)
11.3 African American Vernacular English: Phonology (§250)
11.4 African American Vernacular English: Grammar (§250)
11.5 Present Differentiation of Vocabulary (§253)
11.6 Dictionary of American Regional English, DARE (§255)
11.7 The Language Illustrated (§250)
Appalachian English,
African American Vernacular English,
Hawaiian English,
12 The Twenty-First Century
12.1 Questions for Review