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The history of English
Comprehensive overviews
Concise overviews - linguistic emphasis
Concise overviews - language, culture, and society
1.4 Cultural history

2 Periods in the history of English
2.1 Pre-history of English
2.2 Old English and Middle English
2.3 Early Modern English
2.4 Modern English
2.5 English World-Wide
2.6 English dialects

3 Historical linguistics and language change
3.1 Concise introductions
3.2 Comprehensive overviews

4 General resources
4.1 Introduction to linguistics
4.2 Dictionaries of (historical) linguistics

1 The history of English
1.1 Comprehensive overviews

The Cambridge History of the English Language. 6 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1.2 Concise overviews - linguistic emphasis
Blake, Norman F. (1996). A History of the English Language. Basingstoke: MacMillan.

Baugh, Albert C. and Th. Cable (19934). A History of the English Language. London: Routledge.

Culpeper, Jonathan (1997). History of English. London / New York: Routledge.

Freeborn, Dennis (1992). From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variation Across Time. Basingstoke: MacMillan.

Görlach, Manfred (1997). The Linguistic History of English. Basingstoke: MacMillan.

Jucker, Andreas H. (2000). History of English and English Historical Linguistics. Stuttgart : Ernst Klett.

Pyles, Thomas and John Algeo (19934). The Origins and Development of the English Language. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
1.3 Concise overviews - language, culture, and society
Barber, Charles (1993). The English Language: A Historical Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crystal, David (1987). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fennell, Barbara A. (2001). A History of English. A Sociolinguistic Approach. Oxford: Blackwell.

1.4 Cultural history

Dyer, Christopher (2003). Making a Living in the Middle Ages. London: Penguin.

2 Periods in the history of English
2.1 Pre-history of English
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca (2001). Genes, Peoples, and Languages. London: Penguin.

Fox, Antony (1995). Linguistic Reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mallory, J.P. (1989). In Search of the Indo-Europeans. London: Thames and Hudson.

2.2 Old English and Middle English
Burrow, J.A., and Turville-Petre, T. (eds.) (1992). A Book of Middle English. Oxford: Blackwell.

Mitchell, B. (1995). An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Blackwell.

Smith, Jeremy J. (1999). Essentials of Early English. London: Routledge.

Treharne, Elaine (2000). Old and Middle English: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell.
2.3 Early Modern English
Barber, C. (19972). Early Modern English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Görlach, M. (1991). Introduction to Early Modern English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mitchell, Linda C. (2001). Grammar Wars. Aldershot: Ashgate.
2.4 Modern English

Milroy, J. and Milroy, L. (19912). Authority in Language. London: Routledge.
2.5 English World-Wide
Bailey, Richard W. and Manfred Görlach (eds.) (1982). English as a World Language. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Chesire, Jenny. (ed.) (1991). English around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crystal, D. (1997). English as a Global Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2.6 English dialects

Chambers, J.K. and Peter Trudgill (19982). Dialectology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


3 Historical linguistics and language change
3.1 Concise introductions
Aitchison, J. (1991). Language Change : Progress or Decay? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Trask, R.L. (1994). Language Change. London: Routledge.

McMahon, April, M.S. (1994). Understanding Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3.2 Comprehensive overviews
Campbell, Lyle (1998). Historical Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Hock, Hans Heinrich (1986). Principles of Historical Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Hock, Hans Heirnich and Brian D. Joseph (1996). Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Joseph, Brian D. et al. (eds.). The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Malden: Blackwell.

Lass, Roger (1997). Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Trask, R.L. (1996). Historical Linguistics. London: Arnold.

4 General resources
4.1 Introduction to linguistics

O’Grady, William, Michael Dobrovolsky and Mark Arnoff (19973). Contemporary Linguistics. An Introduction. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins.

4.2 Dictionaries of (historical) linguistics
Trask, R. L. (2000). The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Richards, Jack C. and Platt (1985). Longman Dictionary of Applied Linguistics. Harlow: Longman.



Guillaume Schiltz   (22/04/2004)