An edition of The Origins and Development of the English language (1964)

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An edition of The Origins and Development of the English language (1964)

The Origins and Development of the English language.

2nd ed.

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Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich
Language
English
Pages
413

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English language, History
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Cover of: The Origins and Development of the English Language
The Origins and Development of the English Language
Nov 28, 1992, Thomson Learning
paperback
Cover of: The origins and development of the English Language
The origins and development of the English Language
1982, Academic Press
in English - 3rd ed.
Cover of: The Origins and Development of the English language.
The Origins and Development of the English language.
1971, Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich
in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: The origins and development of the English language
The origins and development of the English language
1964-01-01, Harcourt, Brace & World
Cover of: The origins and development of the English language
The origins and development of the English language
1964-01-01, Harcourt, Brace & World
Cover of: The origins and development of the English language
The origins and development of the English language
1964, Harcourt Brace and World
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First Sentence

"Language, man's greatest intellectual tool, is immensely old, precisely as old as our remotest human ancestors; for it is language that makes our species human, strikingly differentiating us from all other species."

Table of Contents

Preface
Page v
I. Facts, Assumptions and Misconceptions About Language
Page 1
II. The Sounds and Spellings of Current English
Page 29
III. Letters and Sounds: A Brief History of Writing
Page 50
IV. The Backgrounds of English
Page 78
V. The Old English Period (449-1100)
Page 113
VI. The Middle English Period (1100-1500)
Page 152
VII. The Modern English Period to 1800: Sounds and Spellings
Page 181
VIII. The Modern English Period to 1800: Forms and Syntax
Page 195
IX. Recent British and American English
Page 229
X. New Words from Old: Coinages and Adaptations
Page 275
XI. Foreign Elements in the English Word Stock
Page 313
XII. Words and Meanings
Page 342
Selected Bibliography
Page 364
Index of Modern English Words, Affixes, and Phrases
Page 377
Subject Index
Page 399

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Dewey Decimal Class
420
Library of Congress
PE1075 .P9 1971

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x, 413
Number of pages
413

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0155676032
LCCN
78151063
OCLC/WorldCat
140276

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