The History of English: Selected References

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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH: SELECTED REFERENCES

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Algeo, J., & Pyles, T. (2004). The origins and development of the English language (5th ed.). Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth.

Baker, P. S. (2007). Introduction to Old English (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Barber, C., Beal, J. C., & Shaw, P. A. (2009). The English language: A historical introduction (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Baugh, A. C., & Cable, T. (2002). A history of the English language (5th ed.). London: Routledge.

Beal, J. C. (2004). English in modern times: 1700-1945. London: Hodder Arnold.

Brinton, L. J. (2000). The structure of modern English: A linguistic introduction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Brinton, L. J., & Brinton, D. M. (2010). The linguistic structure of Modern English (Rev. ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Burnley, D. (Ed.). (2000). The History of the English language: A source book (2nd ed.). White Plains, NY: Pearson/Longman.

Burns, A., & Coffin, C. (Eds.). (2000). Analyzing English in a global context. London: Routledge.

Burridge, K. (2006). Weeds in the garden of words: Further observations on the tangled history of the English language. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Cable, T. (2002). A companion to Baugh and Cable’s A history of the English language(3rd ed.). London: Routledge.

Culpepper, J. (2005). History of English (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.

Elnoor, A. M. (2003). History of English language in Sudan: A critical re-reading. New Delhi:
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Gramley, S., & Paetzold, M. (2003). A survey of modern English (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.

Hogg, R., & Denison, D. (Eds.). (2006). A history of the English language. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Lerer, S. (2007). Inventing English: A portable history of the language. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press.

Mair, C. (2007). Twentieth century English: History, variation, and standardization. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

McCrum, R., MacNeil, R., & Cran, W. (2002). The story of English (3rd rev. ed.). London: Penguin.

McCully, C., & Hilles, S. (2004). The earliest English: An introduction to Old English language. White Plains, NY: Pearson/Longman.

McIntyre, D. (2008). History of English: A resource book for students. London: Routledge.

McRae, J., & Carter, R. (2003). Routledge guide to modern English writing. London: Routledge.

McWhorter, J. (2009). Our magnificent bastard tongue: The untold story of English. New York: Gotham.

Millar, R. M. (2007). Trask’s historical linguistics (2nd ed.). London: Hodder Arnold.

Momma, H., & Matto, M. (Eds.). (2008). A companion to the history of the English language. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Mugglestone, L. (Ed.). (2008). Oxford history of English.Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Nevalainen, T., & Closs Traugott, E. (Eds.). (2012). The Oxford handbook of the history of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ringe, D. (2009). A linguistic history of English: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Rissanen, M. (1999). Isn’t it? Or is it not? On the order of postverbal subject and negative particle in the history of English. In Van Ostade, I. Tieken-Boon, & W. van der Wurf (Eds.), Negation in the history of English (pp. 189-205). Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schmitt, N., & Marsden, R. (2006). Why is English like that? Historical answers to hard ELT questions. Ann Arbor: University Michigan Press.

Schneider, E. W. (1989). American earlier Black English. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: North-Holland.

Shea, A. (2008). Reading the OED: One man, one year, 21,730 pages. New York: Perigee. Trust the text: Language, corpus, and discourse. London: Routledge.

Singh, I. (2005). The history of English: A student’s guide. London: Hodder Arnold.

Smith, J. (2005). Essentials of early English: Old, middle, and early modern English. London: Routledge.

Smith, J. (2007). Sound change and the history of English. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Soler, E. A., & Martínez-Flor, A. (Eds.). (2008). Investigating pragmatics in foreign language learning, teaching, and testing. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters.

Strang, B. (1970). A history of English. London, UK: Methuen.

Trask, R. L. (2006). Where did English come from? In H. Luria, D. M. Seymour, & T. Smoke (Eds.), Language and linguistics in context: Readings and applications for teachers (pp. 143-147). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (Reprinted from Language: The basics, pp. 110-116, by R. L. Trask, 1995, London: Routledge)

van Gelderen, E. (2006). A history of the English language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

van Kemenade, A., & Los, B. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of the history of English. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Watts, R., & Trudgill, P. (Eds.). (2002). Alternative histories of the English language. London: Routledge.

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