Cambridge History of English (Volumes 1-6)

Author: [British] Hogg et al.
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: The Cambridge History of the English Language is a comprehensive multi-volume work detailing 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 language, which has gradually spread worldwide over the past three centuries to become a global language, is narrated geographically in terms of its development across different regions. This volume (Volume) covers ancient English before the Norman Conquest (1066), including the origins of the Indo-European and Germanic language families, phonetics and morphology, syntax, semantics and vocabulary, dialects, onomastics, and literary language, among other aspects. In addition to providing detailed historical materials on linguistic development, the book 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 at all times. For all readers interested in the history of the English language, this book is an invaluable reference work.