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The stories of English

By: Crystal, DavidContributor(s): English StoriesMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Penguin, 2005Description: vi, 584 pages : illustrationsISBN: 9780141015934; 0141015934Subject(s): English language -- History | English languageDDC classification: 427

Contents:

Introduction -- The standard story -- The real story -- The origins of Old English -- The Old English dialects -- Early lexical diversity -- Stylistic variation in Old English -- The transition to Middle English -- A trilingual nation -- Lexical invasions -- Evolving variation -- A dialect age --The emerging standard -- Printing and its consequences -- Early modern English preoccupations -- Linguistic daring -- Dialect fallout -- Stabilizing disorder -- Standard rules -- New horizons -- Lingusitic life goes on -- And dialect life goes on -- Times a-changin'.

Summary: Crystal offers the reader with not only the authoritative history of standard English, but also narrates the stories of the dialects of English, showing how they influenced the development of standard English. Numerous panels describe word histories and look in detail at specific idiosyncracies

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Introduction --
The standard story --
The real story --
The origins of Old English --
The Old English dialects --
Early lexical diversity --
Stylistic variation in Old English --
The transition to Middle English --
A trilingual nation --
Lexical invasions --
Evolving variation --
A dialect age --The emerging standard --
Printing and its consequences --
Early modern English preoccupations --
Linguistic daring --
Dialect fallout --
Stabilizing disorder --
Standard rules --
New horizons --
Lingusitic life goes on --
And dialect life goes on --
Times a-changin'.

Crystal offers the reader with not only the authoritative history of standard English, but also narrates the stories of the dialects of English, showing how they influenced the development of standard English. Numerous panels describe word histories and look in detail at specific idiosyncracies

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