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Historical Outlines of English Phonology and Middle English Grammar : For Courses in Chaucer Middle English and the History of the English Language (Paperback)

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Historical outlines of English phonology and Middle English grammar for courses in Chaucer Middle English and the history of the English language 1919

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History of English; a sketch of the origin and development of the English language with examples down to the present day 1893

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Oxford Studies in the History of English Spreading Patterns: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation (Hardcover)

Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language in a process called diffusion . This is done by tracking the development of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present... more

The History of English Literature with an Outline of the Origine and Growth of English Language Illustrated by Extracts by William Spalding 1856

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Austrian Studies in English: Language Contact and the History of English: Processes and Effects on Specific Text-Types (Hardcover)

The focus is on the history of contacts between English and other languages and on their effects and especially on lexical innovation and its effects on the English vocabulary. The volume is a contribution to studies on the history of English with... more

Oxford Studies in the History of English Early English Impersonal Construction: An Analysis of Verbal and Constructional Meaning (Hardcover)

The Early English Impersonal Construction aims to demonstrate that an understanding of the functional and semantic aspects of impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English can shed light on questions that remain about these verbs today. The impersonal... more

English etymology; a select glossary serving as an introduction to the history of the English language by Friedrich Kluge ... and Frederick Lutz ... 1898 [Leather Bound]

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History of English: A Sketch of the Origin and Development of the English Language With Examples Down to the Present Day (Hardcover)

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English etymology; a select glossary serving as an introduction to the history of the English language by Friedrich Kluge ... and Frederick Lutz ... 1898 [Leather Bound]

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English etymology a select glossary serving as an introduction to the history of the English language 1898

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Handbook of the history of the English language for the use of teacher and student. 1878 [Leather Bound]

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The history of the English language by Oliver Farrar Emerson ... (1918) [LeatherBound]

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Pre-Owned Word Origins: The Hidden Histories of English Words from A to Z (Paperback) 0713674989 9780713674989

9780713674989. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2nd ed. Language: English. Pages: 574. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 574 p. Contains: Unspecified. The average contemporary English speaker knows 50 000 words. Yet stripped down to its... more

Pre-Owned The History of English: A Student s Guide (Paperback) by Ishtla Singh

9780340806951. Pre-owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 240. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. The History of English provides an accessible introduction to the changes that English has undergone from its... more

A linguistic introduction to the history of English BWB348518 Used / Pre-owned

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English etymology; a select glossary serving as an introduction to the history of the English language 1898 [Leather Bound]

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English Language: A Cultural History of the English Language (Hardcover)

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than before often pinpointing the beginnings of... more

Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature: Change in Life Change in Language: A Semantic Approach to the History of English (Hardcover)

This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle English and Early Modern English. The results of the analysis indicate a tendency towards specialisation... more

A history of English literature / by F.V.N. Painter. 1899 [Leather Bound]

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History of English literature and language. Volume 2 (1861) [Leatherbound]

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A history of English philanthropy from the dissolution of the monasteries to the taking of the first census 1905 [Leather Bound]

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The history of the English language by Oliver Farrar Emerson ... (1906) [LeatherBound]

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History of the English Language (Hardcover)

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Pre-Owned A Social History of English (Paperback 9780415097970) by Mr. Dick Leith

9780415097970. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2nd ed. Language: English. Pages: 312. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 312 p. A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques insights... more

A Investigation of the Rimes and Phonology of the Middle-Scotch Romance Clariodus; a Contribution to the History of the English Language in Scotland / Curtis Francis John (1894) [Leather Bound]

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Handbook of the History of the English Language / A.H.Keane (1860) (1860) [Leather Bound]

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History of the English language 1907 [Leather Bound]

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Pre-Owned A History of the English Language (Paperback) 9027232377 9789027232373

THIS INFORMATION REFERS TO AN OLD EDITION. This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional... more

Pre-Owned Speaking American: A History of English in the United States (Hardcover 9780195179347) by Richard W Bailey

9780195179347. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 232. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 232 p. When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America s... more

The History of the English Constitution 1886 [Leather Bound]

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Pre-Owned Word Origins: The Hidden Histories of English Words from A to Z (Paperback) 0713674989 9780713674989

The average contemporary English speaker knows 50 000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller derived from Latin French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year 800... more

Longman Linguistics Library A History of English Phonology Book 0000 (Paperback)

This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an ongoing recurrent process. The author sees like events occurring at all periods a phenomenon which he considers is disguised by too great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the... more

A smaller history of English literature for the use of schools 1899 [Leather Bound]

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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue : The Untold History of English 9781592404940 Used / Pre-owned

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History of the English Language / Lounsbury Thomas Raynesford (1897) (1897) [Leather Bound]

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Pre-Owned Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English Hardcover

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Organic history of English words 1909 [Leather Bound]

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