From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variation Across Time - Softcover

Freeborn, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0776604694 ISBN 13: 9780776604695

Verlag: University of Ottawa Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

This practical and informative course book is a fascinating, visual volume which leads the student through the development of the language from Old English, through Middle and Early Modern English to the establishment of Standard English in the eighteenth century.
At the core of this substantially expanded second edition lies a series of nearly 200 historical texts, of which more than half are reproduced in facsimile, and which illustrate the progressive changes in the language. The book is firmly based upon linguistic description, with commentaries which form a series of case studies demonstrating the evidence for language change at every level - handwriting, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, grammar and meaning.
Such a wealth of texts, as well as the structured activities and the various case studies, allow the volume to be used not only as a stimulating course text, guiding students through the analysis of data, but also as a comprehensive resource book and invaluable reference tool for teachers and students at all levels.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dennis Freeborn was formerly Head of English Language and Linguistics at the University College of Ripon and York St. John.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Ottawa Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0776604694
• ISBN 13: 9780776604695
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 479
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