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History of English

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Culpeper, Jonathan
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK Routledge 1997
Series:	Language workbooks
Subjects:	English language > History English language > History > Problems, exercises, etc.
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Table of Contents:

1. birth of English: clues in placenames
2. Investigating change in English
3. Spellings and speech sounds
4. Borrowing words
5. New words from old
6. Changing meanings
7. Punctuation
8. Grammar I: nouns
9. Grammar II: verbs
10. Dialects in British English
11. Standardisation
12. World Englishes
Appendix I. Reading an OED entry
Appendix II. Phonetic transcription
Appendix III. 'mini-corpus' of texts
Appendix IV. Some answers
Appendix V. General reading.