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      • Volume 4: 1776–1997
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2008
      January 1999
      ISBN:
      9781139053655
      9780521264778
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521264778
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.203kg, 810 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Literature
      Series:
      The Cambridge History of the English Language
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Literature
    Series:
    The Cambridge History of the English Language
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    This volume deals with the history of the English language from 1776 to 1997. An extensive introduction details the changing socio-historical setting in which English has developed in response to a continuing background of diversity as it was transplanted to North America and beyond. Separate chapters on phonology, syntax, and vocabulary chronicle the linguistic features of the language during this period, taking as the basis for discussion the common core inherited from the sixteenth century and shared by what are now the two principal varieties, American and British English. In addition, there are chapters on English as a literary language, English grammar and usage, and onomastics. A separate volume on North American English is in preparation.

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    "...nearly all of the material is quite clearly presented, well analyzed, and brings out aspects of English...that could easily be overlooked since the language has not changed nearly as much in the current period as it did in the previous seven hundred years." Notes on Linguistics

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