Dan McIntyre is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

CONTENTS

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Common abbreviations

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Acknowledgements

How to use this book

SECTION A: INTRODUCTION

An external history of English

A1 Origins of English

A2 The history of English or the history of Englishes?

A3 Language contact in the Middle Ages

A4 From Middle English to Early Modern English

A5 The process of standardisation

A6 Colonialism, Imperialism and the spread of English

A7 Moves towards Present Day English

A8 Global English and beyond

SECTION B: DEVELOPMENT

A developing language

B1 Understanding Old English

B2 Varieties of Old English

B3 The emergence of Middle English

B4 Sound shifts

B5 Writing in Early Modern English

B6 The development of American English

B7 International English

B8 The globalisation of English

SECTION C: EXPLORATION

Exploring the history of English

C1 The roots of English

C2 Regions and dialects

C3 From Old English to Middle English

C4 Codification and attitudes towards English

C5 Further elements of grammar in Early Modern English

C6 English in the New World

C7 Present Day Englishes

C8 The future of English

SECTION D: EXTENSION

Readings in the history of English

D1 Vocabulary and meaning in Old English

D2 Changes in grammatical gender

D3 Medieval multilingualism

D4 Shifting sounds

D5 The development of a written standard

D6 The beginnings of global English

D7 Studying recent change in English

D8 English in the future

Commentary on activities

Glossary of linguistic terms

Further reading

General histories of English

Old English

Middle English

Early Modern English

Eighteenth-century English to the present day

World Englishes

Timeline of external events in the history of English

References

Index