A Biography of the English Language

Type

Book

Authors

C.M. Millward

ISBN 10

0155016458

ISBN 13

9780155016453

Tags

Literature & Fiction, Foreign Language Study & Reference, Linguistics, Higher & Continuing Education, Education, Literature

Description

The second edition of A Biography of the English Language continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural events; and the English of the past has everywhere left its traces on present-day English. By uncovering the language's past, one can better communicate with it. - from Amzon

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