Introducing the history of the English language /
Seth Lerer.
- New York: Routledge, c2024
- xvii, 282 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society. It first offers a rigorous, approachable introduction to the building blocks of language itself and then traces English language usage's messy development in society, beginning with its origins in the Indo-European language family and continuing chronologically through the Old, Middle, Modern, and present-day forms"--