This Language, a River: A History of English

ISBN-13: 9781554813629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str.

K. Aaron Smith; Susan M. Kim

Opis

Provides an introduction to the history of English that recognises multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. Developed over years of undergraduate teaching, the book helps students to both grasp traditional histories of English, and also to extend and complicate those histories.

Spis treści

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Grammar Fundamentals
• Section 1: Parts of Speech
• Section 2: Basic Syntactic Relations for Nouns
• Section 3: Sentences
• Chapter 3: Before English
• Section 1: Before English
• Section 2: The Genetic Model
• Section 3: The Proto-IE Nominal Group
• Section 4: The Proto-IE Verbal Group
• Chapter 4: Introduction to Phonetics and the International Phonetics Alphabet
• Section 1: Introduction to Phonetics and the International Phonetics Alphabet
• Section 2: The International Phonetic Alphabet
• Section 3: Describing the Sounds of English
• Section 4: Practice with IPA
• Chapter 5: Germanic
• Section 1: Migration of the Indo-Europeans
• Section 2: Development of Germanic
• Section 3: Distinctive Features of Germanic
• Chapter 6: A Review of Four Important Terms and Concepts
• Chapter 7: Old English
• Section 1: The Early External History
• Section 2: OE Orthography and Phonology
• Section 3: The OE Verbal Group
• Section 4: The OE Nominal Group
• Section 5: OE Syntax
• Section 6: OE and Old Norse
• Section 7: OE Literature
• Chapter 8: Middle English
• Section 1: The Norman Conquest
• Section 2: The Reemergence of English
• Section 3: Orthography and Phonology
• Section 4: The ME Nominal Group
• Section 5: The ME Verbal Group
• Section 6: Literature in the ME Period
• Chapter 9: Early Modern English
• Section 1: The Early Modern Period and the Age of Print
• Section 2: Phonology
• Section 3: Morphology and Syntax
• Section 4: The Early Modern English Verbal Group
• Section 5: Standardization and Prescription
• Chapter 10: The Modern Period and Global Englishes
• Section 2: American English
• Section 3: Global Englishes
• Glossary of Terms