**NOT FOR SALE IN THE USA, CANADA OR THE PHILIPPINES** A History of
the English Language explores the linguistic and cultural
development of English from the Roman conquest of England to the
present day to provide a comprehensive overview of the different
aspects of its history. This best-selling classic textbook has been
revised and updated and encourages the reader to develop both an
understanding of present-day English and an enlightened attitude
toward the issues affecting the language today. New features of the
sixth edition include: an additional chapter titled 'English in the
Twenty-first Century', which examines the future of English and
other global languages and includes an assessment of Chinese as a
world language an in-depth treatment of phonological changes, such
as the placement of the Great Vowel Shift as a bridge between
Middle English and Renaissance English further coverage of corpus
linguistics, especially for Renaissance English fresh sections on
accent and register a new survey of the recent debate between
"creolists" and "neo-Anglicists" on the origins of African American
Vernacular English. Balanced and wide-ranging, this textbook is a
must-read for any student studying the history of the English
language
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