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A history of the influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation. The author shows when and why the Anglo-Saxons began to borrow words from Latin and Greek and the effects of contact with the Vikings, Celts, and French.
The Oxford history of English
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English historical syntax and morphology: selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compos…
by López-Couso, María José, Pérez Guerra, Javier, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Santiago de Compostela), Fanego Lema, Teresa
fromAmsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic S…
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This title develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualise grammaticalisation and lexicalisation. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and discourse …
"Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of misinterpretation or over-interpretat…
The development of old english
by Ringe, Donald A., Taylor, Ann A.
fromA linguistic history of English
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"This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. Like Volume I, it is an internal history of the structure of English that combines traditional historical linguistics, modern syntactic theory, the stu…
