From Dialect to Standard
English in England 1154–1776
From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776 is the second volume of a set of three offering a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America.
The present book spans the period up to 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence and the year in which Adam Smith published his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. The title of the first volume from 1998 was The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154, the third and final volume being scheduled for publication later under the title The Development of American and British English from 1776 to the Present Day.
[NOWELE Supplement Series, 21] 2005. xx, 300 pp.
Publishing status: Available | Original publisher: University Press of Southern Denmark
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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PrefaceHans Frede Nielsen | pp. xiii–xiv
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Abbreviations | pp. xv–xvi
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Illustrations | pp. xvii–xviii
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Errata | p. xix
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The Plantagenet Era: History and Language | pp. 1–24
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The Middle English Period | pp. 25–96
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The French Element in Middle English | pp. 97–122
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The London Dialect and The Rise of an Early Standard Language | pp. 123–150
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Tudors, Stuarts and Beyond: History and Language Until 1776 | pp. 151–183
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Change and Variation in Early Modern English | pp. 185–218
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A Linguistic Profile of Early Modern English | pp. 219–271
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References | pp. 273–284
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Index | pp. 285–300
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BIC Subject: CF/2AB – Linguistics/English
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General