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001 2006030652
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005 20150328075555.0
008 060918s2007 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a023113794X (cloth : alk. paper)
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020 $a9780231510769 (e-book)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm71800512
035 $a(OCoLC)71800512
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050 00 $aPE1075$b.L47 2007
082 00 $a420.9$222
100 1 $aLerer, Seth,$d1955-
245 10 $aInventing English :$ba portable history of the language /$cSeth Lerer.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc2007.
300 $aviii, 305 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xHistory.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xEtymology.
650 0 $aEnglish language$yOld English, ca. 450-1100.
650 0 $aEnglish language$yOld English, ca. 450-1100.
650 0 $aEnglish language$yMiddle English, 1100-1500.
650 0 $aLinguistics.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip071/2006030652.html