Cambridge History of English

Author: [British] Richard M. Hogg Richard M. Hogg
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: The Cambridge History of the English Language is a comprehensive multi-volume work that details the history of the English language. Its grand scale and authoritative content are unprecedented. The book traces over a thousand years of early English history chronologically, while the modern English of the past three centuries gradually spread worldwide, becoming a global language. Therefore, this volume, organized geographically, narrates the development of modern English across the world. This volume (Volume) covers ancient English before the Norman Conquest (1066), including the origins of the Indo-European and Germanic language families, phonology and morphology, syntax, semantics and vocabulary, dialects, onomastics, and literary language, among other aspects. In addition to providing detailed historical materials on linguistic development, it also thoroughly discusses the academic achievements in these fields and the interpretation of these materials using contemporary linguistic theories. All the arguments are not aimed solely at specialists but also consider general readers. For all readers interested in the history of the English language, this book is an indispensable reference.