A Living Language: The History and Structure of English

Reference

Bolton, W. F.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Random House, Inc.

The Middle Ages; (History of literature in the English language)

Literature & Fiction

Barrie Jenkins

The English Language (v. 10) (The History of the English Language)

Beowulf; with, The Finnesburg fragment,

Beowulf

Wrenn, Charles Leslie

Harrap

<p>This is a collection of essays about the English language by English and American men of letters, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; that is, until the rise of formal linguistic studies. The writers represented are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English. Topics discussed include the defence of English as a literary language; the relationship with other languages; propriety in literary style; the psychological bases of speech; the relationship between words and things; usage; the need for academies and standards of correctness; the rise of lexicography; spelling reform; prescriptive grammar. These essays are the most important serious attempts to consider the language from various standpoints. Students of English in university departments will find this a convenient and comprehensive collection. It is also in itself an illustration of the development of the literary language.</p>

The English Language: Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490–1839

Words, Language & Grammar

Cambridge University Press

This is a collection of essays about the English language by English and American men of letters, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; that is, until the rise of formal linguistic studies. The writers represented are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English. Topics discussed include the defence of English as a literary language; the relationship with other languages; propriety in literary style; the psychological bases of speech; the relationship between words and things; usage; the need for academies and standards of correctness; the rise of lexicography; spelling reform; prescriptive grammar. These essays are the most important serious attempts to consider the language from various standpoints. Students of English in university departments will find this a convenient and comprehensive collection. It is also in itself an illustration of the development of the literary language.

This book looks at the richness of forms and content in Shakespeare's language through a study of his ten history plays. Each chapter has a double focus on a single category of language and on a single play or small group of related plays. Beginning with an assessment of the textual transmission of the play concerned, the chapters conclude by showing how the analysis of linguistic data has a bearing on critical interpretation. Throughout, the book makes use of computer analysis of the original folio and quarto texts and it includes a bibliography of work on Shakespeare's language.

Shakespeare's English: Language in the History Plays (Language Library)

Dramas & Plays

Blackwell Pub.

A short history of literary English

Edward Arnold

The Middle Ages, Volume 1 (Sphere History of Literature) (v. 1)

Classics

SPHERE

Essays on language cover sounds, word forms, syntax, vocabulary, social contexts, and varieties of English

Sphere History of Literature: The English Language v. 10

CRYSTAL, David

Sphere Books Limited

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