The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volumen4

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Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield
Cambridge University Press, 1992 - 783 páginas
Volume 3, 1476-1776: This volume begins at the time of the establishment of Caxtons first press in England and concludes with the American Declaration of Independence, the notional birth of the first (non-insular) extraterritorial English. It encompasses three centuries which saw immense cultural change over the whole of Europe: the late middle ages, the renaissance, the reformation, the enlightenment, and the beginnings of romanticism. During this time, Middle English became Early Modern English and then developed into the early stages of indisputably modern, if somewhat old-fashioned, English. In this book, the distinguished team of six contributors traces these developments, covering orthography and punctuation, phonology and morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, regional and social variation, and the literary language. The volume also contains a glossary of linguistic terms and an extensive bibliography.

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past and future
48
5
54
SYNTAX David Denison
92
ONOMASTICS Richard Coates
330
PHONOLOGY Michael K C MacMahon
373
ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE
536
LITERARY LANGUAGE Sylvia Adamson
589
Glossary of linguistic terms
693
Bibliography
708
Index
762
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