The Oxford history of English t.1

List of Illustrations List ofAbbreviations Key to Phonetic Symbols Introduction: A History of English Lynda Mugglestone i. Preliminaries: Before English Terry Hoad 2. Beginnings and Transitions: Old English Susan lrvine 3. Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French Matthew Townend 4. Middle English—Dialects and Diversity Marilyn Corne 5. From Middle to Early Modern English JeremyJ. Smith 6. Restructuring Renaissance English April McMahon 7. Mapping Change in Tudor English Terttu Nevalainen 8. The Babel of Renaissance English Paula Blank 9. English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade 10. English in the Nineteenth Century Lynda Mugglestone 11. Modern Regional English in the British Isles Clive Upton 12. English Among the Languages Richard W. Bailey 13. English World-wide in the Twentieth Century Tom McArthur 14. Into the Twenty-first Century David Crystal A Chronology of English Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Références Index