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010 _a 2010526092
020 _a9780195431575 (pbk.)
020 _a019543157X (pbk.)
050 0 0 _aPE1075
_bB76 2011
100 1 _aBrinton, Laurel J.
_0(local)49129
245 1 4 _aThe English language :
_ba linguistic history /
_cLaurel J. Brinton & Leslie K. Arnovick.
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aDon Mills, Ont. :
_bOUP Canada,
_cc2011.
300 _axxii, 602 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [582]-594) and index.
505 0 _aStudying the history of English -- The sounds and writing of English -- Causes and mechanisms of language change -- The Indo-European language family and Proto-Indo-European -- Germanic and the development of Old English -- The words and sounds of Old English -- The grammar of Old English -- The rise of Middle English : words and sounds -- The grammar of Middle English and the rise of a written standard -- The words, sounds, and inflections of Early Modern English -- Early Modern English verbal constructions and eighteenth-century prescriptivism -- Modern English -- Varieties of English -- Appendix A : Quick reference guide -- Appendix B : timeline of historical, literary, and linguistic events in the history of English.
650 0 _aEnglish language
_xHistory.
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650 6 _aAnglais (Langue)
_xHistoire
_vManuels d'enseignement supérieur.
_0(local)71033
700 1 _aArnovick, Leslie K.,
_d1957-
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_cBK
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