This Language, A River
A History of English
Published on 5. December 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-55481-362-9 (ISBN)
Description
This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. Developed over years of undergraduate teaching, the book helps students to both grasp traditional histories of English, and also to extend and complicate those histories. Exercises throughout provide opportunities for puzzling out concepts, committing terms and data to memory, and applying ideas. A comprehensive glossary and up-to-date bibliographies help to guide further study.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
30 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55481-362-9 (9781554813629)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
K. Aaron Smith and Susan M. Kim are Professors of English at Illinois State University.
Content
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Grammar Fundamentals
- Section 1: Parts of Speech
- Section 2: Basic Syntactic Relations for Nouns
- Section 3: Sentences
- Chapter 3: Before English
- Section 1: Before English
- Section 2: The Genetic Model
- Section 3: The Proto-IE Nominal Group
- Section 4: The Proto-IE Verbal Group
- Chapter 4: Introduction to Phonetics and the International Phonetics Alphabet
- Section 1: Introduction to Phonetics and the International Phonetics Alphabet
- Section 2: The International Phonetic Alphabet
- Section 3: Describing the Sounds of English
- Section 4: Practice with IPA
- Chapter 5: Germanic
- Section 1: Migration of the Indo-Europeans
- Section 2: Development of Germanic
- Section 3: Distinctive Features of Germanic
- Chapter 6: A Review of Four Important Terms and Concepts
- Chapter 7: Old English
- Section 1: The Early External History
- Section 2: OE Orthography and Phonology
- Section 3: The OE Verbal Group
- Section 4: The OE Nominal Group
- Section 5: OE Syntax
- Section 6: OE and Old Norse
- Section 7: OE Literature
- Chapter 8: Middle English
- Section 1: The Norman Conquest
- Section 2: The Reemergence of English
- Section 3: Orthography and Phonology
- Section 4: The ME Nominal Group
- Section 5: The ME Verbal Group
- Section 6: Literature in the ME Period
- Chapter 9: Early Modern English
- Section 1: The Early Modern Period and the Age of Print
- Section 2: Phonology
- Section 3: Morphology and Syntax
- Section 4: The Early Modern English Verbal Group
- Section 5: Standardization and Prescription
- Chapter 10: The Modern Period and Global Englishes
- Section 2: American English
- Section 3: Global Englishes
- Glossary of Terms
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Grammar Fundamentals
- Section 1: Parts of Speech
- Section 2: Basic Syntactic Relations for Nouns
- Section 3: Sentences
- Chapter 3: Before English
- Section 1: Before English
- Section 2: The Genetic Model
- Section 3: The Proto-IE Nominal Group
- Section 4: The Proto-IE Verbal Group
- Chapter 4: Introduction to Phonetics and the International Phonetics Alphabet
- Section 1: Introduction to Phonetics and the International Phonetics Alphabet
- Section 2: The International Phonetic Alphabet
- Section 3: Describing the Sounds of English
- Section 4: Practice with IPA
- Chapter 5: Germanic
- Section 1: Migration of the Indo-Europeans
- Section 2: Development of Germanic
- Section 3: Distinctive Features of Germanic
- Chapter 6: A Review of Four Important Terms and Concepts
- Chapter 7: Old English
- Section 1: The Early External History
- Section 2: OE Orthography and Phonology
- Section 3: The OE Verbal Group
- Section 4: The OE Nominal Group
- Section 5: OE Syntax
- Section 6: OE and Old Norse
- Section 7: OE Literature
- Chapter 8: Middle English
- Section 1: The Norman Conquest
- Section 2: The Reemergence of English
- Section 3: Orthography and Phonology
- Section 4: The ME Nominal Group
- Section 5: The ME Verbal Group
- Section 6: Literature in the ME Period
- Chapter 9: Early Modern English
- Section 1: The Early Modern Period and the Age of Print
- Section 2: Phonology
- Section 3: Morphology and Syntax
- Section 4: The Early Modern English Verbal Group
- Section 5: Standardization and Prescription
- Chapter 10: The Modern Period and Global Englishes
- Section 2: American English
- Section 3: Global Englishes
- Glossary of Terms