The Origins and Development of the English Language
4th Edition
Published on 1. January 1993
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-15-500168-8 (ISBN)
Description
The history of the English language, as seen through the lens of linguistic analysis, takes a theory-neutral stance for graduate and advanced undergraduate studies. Pyles and Algeo present the differences between our present British and American dialects in a scholarly fashion without confining the student to a prerequisite knowledge of linguistic theory.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Florence
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
672 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-15-500168-8 (9780155001688)
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Previous edition
Thomas Pyles
Origins and Development of the English Language
Book
07/1982
3rd Edition
Thomson Learning
€44.19
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Content
Language and Languages: An Introduction. The Sounds of Current English. Letters and Sounds: A Brief History of Writing. The Backgrounds of English. The Old English Period (449. 1100). The Middle English Period (1100. 1500). The Modern English Period to 1800: Forms and Syntax. Recent British and American English. Words and Meanings. New Words from Old. Foreign Elements in the English Word Stock.