a c baugh a history of the english language pdf

No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, includingphotocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission from Routledge.British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 3-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 8-2 (hbk) ISBN 9-0 (pbk)Ĭontents viii Preface 1 16 1 English Present and Future 38 2 The Indo-European Family of Languages 67 3 Old English 98 4 Foreign Influences on Old English 116 5 The Norman Conquest and the Subjection of English, 1066–1200 146 6 The Reestablishment of English, 1200–1500 187 7 Middle English 238 8 The Renaissance, 1500–1650 279 9 The Appeal to Authority, 1650–1800 33110 The Nineteenth Century and After11 The English Language in America 387 399 Appendix A Specimens of the Middle English Dialects 406 Appendix B English Spelling Index “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to. Copyright © 2002 Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. Albert C.Baugh was Schelling Memorial Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.Thomas Cable is Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of English at theUniversity of Texas at Austin.Ī History of the English Language Fifth Edition Albert C.Baugh and Thomas Cableįirst published 1951 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Second edition 1959 Third edition 1978 Fourth edition published 1993 by Routledge Authorized British edition from the English language edition, entitled A History of the EnglishLanguage, Fifth Edition by Albert C.Baugh and Thomas Cable, published by Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall, Inc. updated material on African-American Vernacular EnglishA student supplement for this book is available, entitled Companion to A History of theEnglish Language.a new section on gender issues and linguistic change.a revised first chapter, ‘English present and future’.The fifth edition has been revised and updated to keep students up to date with recentdevelopments in the field. The bookprovides students with a balanced and up-to-date overview of the history of the language. A History of the English Language is a comprehensive exploration of the linguisticand cultural development of English, from the Middle Ages to the present day. A History of the English Language Fifth Edition Baugh and Cable’s A History of the English Language has long been considered thestandard work in the field.

A c baugh a history of the english language pdf