TY  - BOOK
AU  - Albert C. Baugh
AU  - Thomas Cable
TI  - A history of the English language / 
SN  - 9780415655965
U1  - REF 420.9 B32 
KW  - English language History
N1  - English present and future
The Indo-European family of languages
Old English
Foreign influences on Old English
The Norman Conquest and the subjection of English, 1066-1200
The reestablishment of English, 1200-1500
Middle English
The Renaissance, 1500-1630
The appeal to authority, 1650-1800
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries
The English language in America
The twenty-first century
Appendix A. Specimens of the Middle English dialect
Appendix B. English spelling
N2  - Comprehensive and balanced, this classic exploration of the history of the English language combines internal linguistic history and external cultural history--from the Middle Ages to the present. Students are encouraged to develop both an understanding of present-day English and an enlightened attitude toward questions affecting the language today
ER  -