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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joan C Beal |
ISBN: | 9780203784457 0203784456 9781134664092 1134664095 9781134664160 1134664168 |
OCLC Number: | 897447728 |
Notes: | Originally published 2004 by Hodder Arnold. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 264 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | 1. Modern English and modern times -- 2. The vocabulary of later modern English -- 3. Recording and regulating the lexicon : dictionaries from Dr. Johnson to the Oxford English dictionary -- 4. Syntactic change in later modern English -- 5. Grammars and grammarians -- 6. Phonological change in later modern English -- 7. Defining the standard of pronunciation : pronouncing dictionaries and the rise of RP -- 8. Beyond standard English : varieties of English in the later modern period. |
Responsibility: | Joan C. Beal. |
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English in Modern Times is a welcome and praiseworthy addition to existing scholarship on the history of English. English Language and Linguistics"It can be read with great profit." Anglistik, Vol 18.1 Read more...
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