A History of the English Language, Fifth Edition - Baugh, Albert C.; Cable, Thomas Review & Synopsis

 Synopsis

   Comprehensive and balanced, this classic exploration of the history of the English language combines internal linguistic history and external cultural history-from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis is on the political, social and cultural forces that affect language. Reflects the latest trends and statistics of the last ten years in a revised and updated chapter 1, English Present and Future. Provides a new section on Gender Issues and Linguistic Change in Chapter 10. Includes a thorough revision of Chapter 11, The English Language in America, including updated material on African American Vernacular English. Discusses Black English and varieties of English in Africa and Asia, as well as varieties in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Includes a map of American dialects. Provides examples of twentieth-century vocabulary. For multilingual readers or anyone who wishes to develop a well-rounded understanding of present-day English. 

Review

A classic comprehensive and balanced exploration of the history of the English language -- from the Middle Ages to the present -- that combines internal linguistic history and external cultural history.

 Comprehensive and balanced, this classic exploration of the history of the English language combines internal linguistic history and external cultural history-from the Middle Ages to the present. This market-leading text encourages readers to develop both an understanding of present-day English and an enlightened attitude toward questions affecting the language today. 

 Features in the New Edition include:  

>> A thoroughly revised and updated Chapter 1, English Present and Future, reflecting the latest trends and statistics of the last ten years 

>> A new section in Chapter 10, Gender Issues and Linguistic Change, providing a balanced and current perspective on an important social topic 

>> Thorough revision of Chapter 11, The English Language in America, with updated material on African American Vernacular English The traditional strengths of the text remain, including:  

>> An emphasis on the political, social, and cultural forces that affect language 

>> The use of traditional phonetic notation to help pronunciation 

>> A map of American dialects and examples of twentieth-century vocabulary demonstrating differences in American English and comparisons of current English to earlier versions 

A History of the English Language

Comprehensive and balanced, this classic exploration of the history of the English language combines internal linguistic history and external cultural historyfrom the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis is on the political, social and cultural forces that affect language.Reflects the latest trends and statistics of the last ten years in a revised and updated chapter 1, English Present and Future. Provides a new section on Gender Issues and Linguistic Change in Chapter 10. Includes a thorough revision of Chapter 11, The English Language in America, including updated material on African American Vernacular English. Discusses Black English and varieties of English in Africa and Asia, as well as varieties in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Includes a map of American dialects. Provides examples of twentieth-century vocabulary.For multilingual readers or anyone who wishes to develop a well-rounded understanding of present-day English.

This market-leading text encourages readers to develop both an understanding of present-day English and an enlightened attitude toward questions affecting the language today."

A Companion to Baugh and Cable's A History of the English Language

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the English Language. Each chapter in the workbook corresponds directly to a chapter in the textbook and offers exercises, review questions, extensive supplementary examples, additional explanations and a range of sample extracts taken from texts of different periods. An additional 'pre-chapter' on the sounds of English also provides phonetic information and exercises that will prove useful throughout the book. This third edition has been revised alongside the textbook and includes new exercises to accompany the sections on Gender Issues and Linguistic Change, and African American Vernacular English. This workbook is an invaluable companion for all History of English Language courses.

This workbook is an invaluable companion for all History of English Language courses."

Companion to Baugh and Cable's History of the English Language

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's "History of the English Language."

An additional 'pre-chapter' on the sounds of English also provides phonetic information and exercises that will prove useful throughout the book.This third edition has been revised alongside the textbook and includes new exercises to ..."

Historical and Social Evolution of the English Language

This is meant to be a handbook for students of English in undergraduate classes, who have the subject as Major or Honours. The book has been written keeping the latest researches that have been conducted regarding the subject. The book traces the birth of languages in general, and how the English language came to be in the first place, and examines the many influences on the language. It also examines how new words are formed and how the language was shaped to the present state. The book also features some personal contributions in the making of the language, and looks at the influence of the technological revolution in re-shaping English at present. The book is a must-have for all students of English Hons/Major, and is also a good reference book for teachers and researchers, who need to be abreast with the latest researches in the subject.

The English Language: A Historical Introduction. Second Edition. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Baugh , Albert C . and Cable , Thomas . A History of the English Language . Fifth Edition . 162 London: Pearson Education ..."

Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language

"First Edition published in Paperback 2001."

 Gleick , James . “Cyber-Neologoliferation.” New York Times Magazine online, November 5, 2006, accessed June 30, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/magazine/ 05cyber.html. Gleick , James . The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood ."

On Words and Sounds

The present volume On Words and Sounds is a collection of selected papers from PLM 2009. The Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) is an annual international general linguistics conference. The book consists of fifteen articles, each of which can be read separately or in relation to others. The book will definitely appeal to the academic readership interested in linguistic disciplines such as: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and clinical linguistics. Collectively, the contributions investigate the interrelationships among those disciplines as well as between language and music. The central aim for the scholars was to explore the PLM 2009 leitmotif “Variants, Variability, Variation” and show that the complete study of language involves diversified frameworks often rooted in interdisciplinary approaches.

“Modeling English Past Tense Intuitions with Minimal Generalization. ... Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable . 2002[1951]. A History of the English Language . Fifth Edition . London: Routledge. Beedham, Christopher. 2002."

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English

This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

 Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable .2002[1951]. A History of the English Language . Fifth edition . London: Routledge. Beal, Joan C. 2004. English in Modern Times 1700–1945. London: Arnold. 2009. Three hundred years of prescriptivism (and ..."

The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist

Working medievalists are often the only scholar of the Middle Ages in a department, a university, or a hundred-mile radius. While working to build a body of focused scholarly work, the lone medievalist is expected to be a generalist in the classroom and a contributing member of a campus community that rarely offers disciplinary community in return. As a result, overtasked and single medievalists often find it challenging to advocate for their work and field. As other responsibilities and expectations crowd in, we come to feel disconnected from the projects and subjects that sustain our intellectual passion. An insidious isolation even from one another creeps in, and soon, even attending a conference of fellow medievalists can become a lonely experience. Surrounded by scholars with greater institutional support, lower teaching loads, or more robust research agendas, we may feel alienated from our work - the work to which we've dedicated our careers. The Lone Medievalist (the collaborative community and the book) is intended as an antidote to the problem of professional isolation. It is offered in the spirit of common weal that marks the ideals (if not always the realities) of so many of the communities we study - agricultural, professional, national, notional, and of course, monastic. The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist isn't only about scholarship, or teaching, or institutional life, or the pursuit of new learning - it's about all of them. The essays in this volume address all aspects of the professional and intellectual life of medievalists. Though many of us acknowledge and address the challenges in being Lone Medievalists, these essays are not intended as voces clamantium; they are offered to provide strategies, camaraderie, and an occasional bit of inspiration. They are a call to action, a sharing of hard-won wisdom, and a helping hand - and, above all, a reminder that we are not alone.

So I proposed that, instead of dropping the course, I retool it into a history of the English language course and ... have used the classic History of the English Language by Baugh and Cable (Prentice-Hall, now in its fifth edition )1 on ..."

Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer

Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary, published in 1538, became the leading work of its kind in England. Gabriele Stein describes this pioneering work, exploring its inner structure and workings, its impact on contemporary scholarship, and its later influence. The author opens with an account of Elyots life and publications. Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1490-1546) was a humanist scholar and intellectual friend of Sir Thomas More. He was employed by Thomas Cromwell in diplomatic and official capacities that did more to impoverish than enrich him, and he sought to increase his income with writing. His treatise on moral philosophy, The Boke named the Governour, was published in 1531, and dedicated to Henry VIII. His popular treatise on medicine, The Castell of Helth, published some years later, went through seventeen editions. Professor Stein then considers how and why Elyot decided to compile a Latin-English dictionary. She looks at the guiding principles, the organization he devised, and the authors and texts he used as sources. She examines the books importance for the historical study of English, noting the lexical regionalisms and items of vulgar usage in the Promptuorum parvulorum and the dictionaries of Palsgrave and Elyot before discussing Elyots linking of lemma and gloss, and use of generic reference points. She explains how Elyot translated and defined the Latin headwords and compares his practice with his predecessors. The author ends with a detailed assessment of Elyots impact on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century dictionaries and his place in Renaissance lexicography. Her exploration of the work of an outstanding sixteenth-century scholar will interest historians of the English language, lexicography, and the intellectual climate of Tudor England.

English Monks and the Suppression of the Monasteries. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Baugh , Albert C . and Cable , Thomas (2003). A History of the English Language . 5th edition , London and New York: Routledge; 1/1951, 2/1959, ..."

Eighteenth-Century English

The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and grammars first appeared. This book is divided into thematic sections which deal with issues central to English in the eighteenth century. These include linguistic ideology and the grammatical tradition, the contribution of women to the writing of grammars, the interactions of writers at this time and how politeness was encoded in language, including that on a regional level. The contributions also discuss how language was seen and discussed in public and how grammarians, lexicographers, journalists, pamphleteers and publishers judged on-going change. The novel insights offered in this book extend our knowledge of the English language at the onset of the modern period.

 Baugh , Albert c . and Thomas cable 1951. A History of the English Language [ Fifth edition 2002]. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Bax, Randy 2005. 'Traces of Johnson in the language of Fanny Burney', in: conde- Silvestre and ..."

Language As Commodity

Throughout human history, languages have been in competition with each other. As the world becomes more globalized, this trend increases. It affects the decision-making of those in positions of power and determines macro language policies and planning. Often decisions about language (or dialects or language variety) are related to usefulness - defined in terms of their pragmatic and commercial currency or their value as symbols of socio-cultural identity. Languages can be modes of entry into coveted social hierarchies or strongholds of religious, historical, technological and political power bases. Languages are seen now as commodities that carry different values in an era of globalization. This volume engages with language policies and positions in relation to the roles and functions these languages adopt. It examines the 'value' of languages, defined in terms of the power they have in the global marketplace as much as within the complex matrices of the local socio-politics. These valuations strongly underpin the various motivations that influence policy-making decisions, and in turn, these motivations create the tensions that characterize many language-related issues; tensions that arise when languages become commodified.

 Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable (2002), A History of the English Language ( Fifth edition ) (London: Routledge). Bolton, Kingsley (2002), 'Hong Kong English: Autonomy and creativity' (introduction) in Kingsley Bolton (ed.) ..."

Teaching English in a European and Global Perspective

This book provides the reader with a basis upon which to develop teaching and learning methodologies for the multicultural classroom. It is a valuable tool for language teachers who want to implement educational practices that best serve the needs of learners eager to acquire proficiency in languages of wider communication such as English. Focusing on cross-cultural communicative competency, and with chapters on the historical spread of English, the pros and cons of utilizing American and British norms, and new alternative methods and practices, this book provides English instructors with the foundation they will need to meet the challenges of teaching a lingua franca in the age of globalization. Novel conceptualizations of language are presented which bring pluralism and multiculturalism center stage. The volume serves to show how teachers and teacher trainees can best assist learners in their pursuit of oral communication skills in the world’s most utilitarian language.

The Dominance of English as a Language of Science: Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities. ... Baugh , Albert C ., and Thomas Cable . A History of the English Language . London: Routledge, 1951, reprinted Fifth Edition 2002."

Agreement in Language Contact

Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the change from one to the other is anything but: more than 120 years of research into the matter provided no prevailing opinion – let alone a consensus – regarding how it proceeded or why it occurred. The present study is the first to address this issue in the context of language contact with Old Norse, assessing this contact influence in relation to both language-formal and semantico-cognitive factors. This empirical, functional account uses rigorous, innovative methodology, interdisciplinary evidence, and well-established models of synchronic variation in diachronic application to draw a fine-grained picture of the variation, change, and loss of gender from Old to Middle English and its underlying mainsprings. The resulting plausible and parsimonious explanations will prove relevant to students and scholars of historical linguistics, morpho-syntax, language variation and change, or language contact, to name but a few.

 A History of the English Language , 3rd edn. London: Routledge. Baugh , Albert C . & Cable , Thomas . 2002. A History of the English Language , 5th edn. London: Routledge. Berg, Thomas . 1992. Prelexical and postlexical features in language ..."

Sociolinguistics in Ireland

Sociolinguistics in Ireland takes a fresh look at the interface of language and society in present-day Ireland. In a series of specially commissioned chapters it examines the relationship of the Irish and English languages and traces their dynamic development both in history and at present.

versus retention (Filppula 1999, 2003) in the historical development of Irish English. The databases for analyses have ... Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable (2002). A History of the English Language . Fifth edition . London: Routledge."

English Accents and Dialects

English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides a detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation (RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of English. Key features: main regional differences are followed by a survey of speech in over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of which are available to download at www.routledge.com/cw/hughes recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English contains new entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, London West Indian, Lancashire and the Shetlands additional exercises with answers online accompany the new varieties clear maps throughout for locating particular accents and dialects. This combination of reference manual and practical guide makes this fifth edition of English Accents and Dialects a highly useful resource providing a comprehensive and contemporary coverage of speech in the UK and Ireland today.

An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition Arthur Hughes, Peter Trudgill, ... The English Language : A Historical Introduction, 2nd edn. ... Baugh , Albert and Cable , Thomas (2002)."

Long Story Short: An Interactive Journey through the History of English

This textbook intends to do a clear, informal review of the history of the English language. Although the main focus is not to provide a thorough social description of the different periods in which the history of English is divided, we want to make it clear that language has changed because it is used by society, and therefore one cannot be understood without the other.

Brill: 3748. Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable . 2005. A History of the English Language . 5th edition . London: Routledge. Barber, Charles. 1997 [1976]. Early Modern English, 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press."

Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples

This book analyses Noah Webster's and Samuel Johnson's use of verbal examples in their dictionaries as a means of giving guidance on word usage. The author's major interest lies in elucidating how uniquely Webster, who was originally a grammarian, made use of verbal examples. In order to achieve this purpose, the author provides chapters based on types of entry words in their functional contexts. Johnson's selection of sources of citations and the frequency of his quoting citations tended to vary strongly according to the type of entry word; he also supplied invented examples rather than citations when he thought it especially necessary to clarify the use of a word. By contrast, with the exception of biblical ones, almost all of Webster's citations were taken from Johnson's »Dictionary«. However, Webster significantly made full use of such citations to express his view on word usage, which differs essentially from Johnson's. Besides, Webster had a strong tendency to quote phrases and sentences from the Bible for the same purpose.

Bately, Janet A. (1964), 'Dryden's revisions in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy', Review of English Studies, XV, 268-282. Baugh , Albert C . and Cable , Thomas (2002), A History of the English Language ( 5th edition )."

Inventing English

A history of English from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem, “written with real authority, enthusiasm and love for our unruly and exquisite language” (The Washington Post). Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Seth Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This edition of his “remarkable linguistic investigation” (Booklist) features a new chapter on the influence of biblical translation and an epilogue on the relationship of English speech to writing. A unique blend of historical and personal narrative, both “erudite and accessible” (The Globe and Mail), Inventing English is the surprising tale of a language that is as dynamic as the people to whom it belongs. “Lerer is not just a scholar; he's also a fan of English—his passion is evident on every page of this examination of how our language came to sound—and look—as it does and how words came to have their current meanings…the book percolates with creative energy and will please anyone intrigued by how our richly variegated language came to be.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Great Vowel Shift and the Changing Character of English Baugh , Albert C ., and Thomas Cable . A History of the English Language . 5th ed . Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2004. Crotch, W.J.B. The Prologues and Epilogues of ..."

The Oxford History of Poetry in English

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesises existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the volumes. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage. Featured are metre and form, figuration and allusiveness, and literary career, as well as a wide range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert. Major works discussed include Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and Shakespeare's Sonnets.

See Albert C . Baugh and Thomas Cable , A History of the English Language , fifth edition ( London , 2002 ) ; and Roger Lass ( ed . ) , The Cambridge History of the English Language , Vol . 3 , 1476-1776 ( Cambridge , 1999 ) ."

English Historical Linguistics

As Thomas Cable , living co-author with the late Albert C . Baugh of America's leading textbook, A History of the English Language ( 5th edition 2001), remembers, The cliche ́ had it that the Baugh text was strong on the 'external' history ..."

DEMOGRAPHY TERRITORY LAW 2: LAND-TENURE & THE ORIGINS OF CAPITALISM IN BRITAIN

Fascinating and original scientific and social investigation of the origins of capitalism in Britain, using a new evolutionary sociology theory and political systems comparison (including France and Holland), with scholarly reviews of alternative theories. Explores significance of Britain's odd land-tenure and inheritance system and asks where it came from, finding answers to questions preoccupying legal and economic theoreticians since the 13th century, with a demonstration of inheritance law in Hamlet. A specialist in geopolitics and energy resources, the author weighs up the roles of different fuels and technology and the availability of labour in the British industrial revolution. Many factors impinging on Britain's unusual population growth are reviewed, including diseases, transport and fertility opportunities. Alongside economic history this complex but sparkling work chronicles changes to the environment, from climate and sea-level changes to forest cover.

128 Baugh , Albert C . and Cable , Thomas , A History of the English Language , 5th Edition , Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2002, pp109-111. The authors document the way in which the English languages survived the Norman conquest."

Linguistic Dynamism in South Asia

Top linguistics of India, Taiwan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and various Indian states have contributed on the features of different local languages which are at different levels of development and face problem of growth.

teaching the community their native languages . They can work at hospitals , job agencies , etc. as ... References Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable . 2002. A History of the English Language . Fifth Edition . New Jersey : Upper Saddle ..."

English Vocabulary Elements

This unique text draws on the tools of modern linguistics to help the student acquire an effective understanding of learned, specialized, and scientific vocabulary. English Vocabulary Elements (EVE) helps develop familiarity with over 350 Latin and Greek word elements in English, and shows how these roots are the building blocks within thousands of different words. Along the way the authors introduce and illustrate many of the fundamental concepts of linguistics. Offering a thorough approach to the expansion of vocabulary, EVE is an invaluable resource that provides students a deeper understanding of the language. This book will be useful to upper level high school students, undergraduates in English, Linguistics, and Classics departments, ESL students, and anyone interested in building vocabulary skills. This edition is refined and thoroughly updated. It includes updated cultural references, and the authors have revised and improved the pedagogy based on classroom experience. In particular they account for variations in pronunciation among students; clarify when historical details are important or peripheral; and improve the many examples and exercises that form the core of the book.

 Baugh , Albert C ., and Thomas Cable . A History of the English Language . 5th ed . Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002. (There is also a companion workbook by Thomas Cable .) Claiborne, Robert. Our Marvelous Native Tongue."

This Language, A River

This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. Developed over years of undergraduate teaching, the book helps students both to grasp traditional histories of English and to extend and complicate those histories. Exercises throughout provide opportunities for puzzling out concepts, committing terms and data to memory, and applying ideas. A comprehensive glossary and up-to-date bibliographies help to guide further study.

An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1983. Baugh , Albert C ., and Thomas Cable . A History of the English Language ( 5th edition ). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002."

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age

Examines how pre-modernist conceptions and social organizations of pleasure have impacted post-WWII film.

 Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable (2005). A History of the English Language , 5th edition , London: Routledge. Benskin, Michael, Margaret Laing, Vasilis Karaiskos and K. Williamson (2013–). An Electronic Version of A Linguistic Atlas of ..."

Freelance English Teaching in Eastern Europe

Freelance English Teaching in Eastern Europe – A Perspective from R.P. features exclusive insights and anecdotes about living in E. Europe and working as a freelance English teacher - an exciting occupation for college students and graduates hoping to integrate into the local work force. It has 43 chapters including The Nature of Work and Qualifications; English the International Language; Outsourcing, Multinational Corporations and English; Eastern Europe Turns to English; Job Offers, Competition, and Cowboy Schools; the School Contract; Advertising; Combining Work With Travel and Entertainment; Impressions From a Different Culture, and Conditions, Resources, and Contract for Freelancing. Readers won’t find such an extensive, information-rich account of EFL work and social climate in the region in any other book, useful for teacher-traveler types who wish to broaden their horizons and combine work with travel, those wishing to learn about foreign culture, professional EFL teachers seeking to better informed, career-minded people who want to enrich their CV or resume, those wishing to be more competitive in the international job market, and any potential entrepreneurs for the ELT industry. Tutors and consultants who wish to venture into the E. European ELT market for the first time as freelancers should find the book invaluable.

A Perspective from R.P. Christopher Stanling. FURTHER READING Baugh , Albert C . and Cable , Thomas . A History of the English Language : 5th Edition . Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice Hall. 2001 FURTHER READING."

Phrasal Verbs

The book traces the evolution of the English verb-particle construction (‘phrasal verb’) from Indo-European and Germanic up to the present. A contrastive survey of the basic semantic and syntactic characteristics of verb-particle constructions in the present-day Germanic languages shows that the English construction is structurally unremarkable and its analysis as a periphrastic word-formation is proposed. From a cross-linguistic and comparative perspective the Old English prefix verbs are identified as preverbs and the shift towards postposition of the particles is connected to the development of more general patterns of word order. The interplay of phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic factors in the loss of the native prefixes in the history of English is investigated. In this context the question is discussed to what extent the older prefixes were replaced by particles and borrowed prefixes, how the characteristic etymological and semantic properties of the Modern English phrasal verbs can be explained and what role they play in the lexicon. The author argues that their common perception as particularly ‘English’, ‘colloquial’ and ‘informal’ has its origin in the eighteenth-century normative tradition.

The English Verb-Particle Construction and its History Stefan Thim ... Linguistic change in present-day English. ... 4th edn. London: Routledge. Baugh , Albert C . & Thomas Cable . 2002. A history of the English language . 5th edn."

Shakespeare's Englishes

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of 'true' Englishness in his early plays.

 Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable , A History of the English Language , 5th edition (London: Routledge, 2002). Beckwith, Sarah, 'Ritual, Church and Theatre: Medieval Dramas of the Sacramental Body', in David Aers, ed., Culture and History ..."

Writing at the Origin of Capitalism

In the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries, England simultaneously developed a national market and a national literary culture. Writing at the Origin of Capitalism describes how economic change in early modern England created new patterns of textual production and circulation with lasting consequences for English literature. Synthesizing research in book and media history, including investigations of manuscript and print, with Marxist historical theory, this volume demonstrates that England's transition to capitalism had a decisive impact on techniques of writing, rates of literacy, and modes of reception, and, in turn, on the form and style of texts. Individual chapters discuss the impact of market integration on linguistic standardization and the rise of a uniform English prose; the growth of a popular literary market alongside a national market in cheap commodities; and the decline of literary patronage with the monarchy's loosening grip on trade regulation, among other subjects. Peddlers' routes and price integration, monopoly licenses and bills of exchange, all prove vital for understanding early modern English writing. Each chapter reveals how books and documents were embedded in wider economic processes, and as a result, how the origin of capitalism constituted a revolutionary event in the history of English literature.

Literary Circulation and Social Change in Early Modern England Julianne Werlin. Auerbach , Erich . ... Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable . A History of the English Language , 5th edition ( London , 2002 ) . van Bavel , Bas ."

Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar

Maurice Gross, who died in December 2001, was a pioneer and leading thinker in the field of modern linguistics. Long before computers could facilitate large-scale, lexically-based language study, he and his team began building an exhaustive, empirically-based inventory of the "lexicon-grammar" of French which, thirty years later, still remains the most complete syntax-based lexicon available. Researchers all over the world have adopted the Gross model of description, which serves as a computational model for any language. As can be seen in the contributions in this volume, it has been applied to languages as different as Arabic, Chinese, English, Greek or Korean (as well as the major Romance languages, of course). In this volume the reader will also find a number of articles by eminent linguists who were close friends of Maurice Gross, and frequently in dialogue with him on linguistic issues. No matter whether they shared his theoretical views, or his particular empirical methods of description, they each had great respect for his work, especially for the close-grained linguistic analysis which has set a benchmark for future generations.

same rules of conversion that are applied to all upstarts and alien elements in English, and to undergo such modification as renders their native spelling and ... Baugh , Albert C . & Thomas Cable . 1997. A History of the English Language ."

English Historical Linguistics 2008: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions

The fourteen studies selected for this volume all of them peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 2008 (23 30 August) at the University of Munich investigate syntactic variation and change in the history of English from two perspectives that are crucial to explaining language change, namely the analysis of usage patterns and the social motivations of language change. Documenting the way syntactic elements have changed their combinatory preferences in fine-grained corpus studies renders the opportunity to catch language change "in actu." A majority of studies in this book investigate syntactic change in the history of English from this viewpoint using a corpus-based approach, focusing on verbal constructions, modality and developments in the English noun phrase.The book is of primary interest to linguists interested in current research in the history of English syntax. Its empirical richness is an excellent source for teaching English Historical Syntax.Volume II to be announced soon."

References Baugh , Albert C . & Thomas Cable . 2002. A History of the English Language . 5th edition . Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Buchanan, James. 1762. The British Grammar: Or, an Essay, in Four Parts, Towards Speaking ..."

The Pragmatics of Modals in Shakespeare

Modals and related phenomena are without doubt one of the most complicated issues in the grammar of language. This study provides a reappraisal of the modals in Shakespeare's language from the pragmatic viewpoint, both micropragmatic and macropragmatic. The material selected for analysis are modals SHALL, SHOULD, WILL, WOULD, and their contracted forms. Micropragmatic aspects such as speech acts seem relatively easily accessible to historical researchers; however, this study moves further into the macropragmatic dimensions of language use than the earlier ones and covers politeness, dialogue, and discourse analysis.

The Cambridge history of the English language , Volume III : 1476-1776 " . Language 78 : 565-569 . ... 2002 Behre , Frank 1955 Baugh , Albert C - Thomas Cable 2002 Early Modern English . ... of the English language . ( Fifth edition . ) ..."

A History of the Hausa Language

With more than sixty million speakers across Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and Ghana Hausa is one of the most widely spoken African languages. It is known for its rich phonology and complex morphological and verbal systems. Written by the world's leading expert on Hausa, this ground-breaking book is a synthesis of his life's work, and provides a lucid and comprehensive history of the language. It describes Hausa as it existed in former times and sets out subsequent changes in phonology, including tonology, morphology, grammar, and lexicon. It also contains a large loanword inventory, which highlights the history of Hausa's interaction with other languages and peoples. It offers new insights not only on Hausa in the past, but also on the Hausa language as spoken today. This book is an invaluable resource for specialists in Hausa, Chadic, Afroasiatic, and other African languages as well as for general historical linguists and typologists.

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 22: 1–32. Abraham, R. C. 1949/1962. Dictionary of the Hausa Language. ... Baugh , Albert C . and Cable , Thomas . 1993. A History of the English Language , 5th ed . London: Taylor and Francis."

Variation and Change in Postcolonial Contexts

This volume addresses recent issues concerning language change and standardization in postcolonial settings. The book brings together experts from North America, Africa, Asia and the insular areas of Australia and Trinidad and Tobago, and discusses aspects of language variation in the emergence of new varieties. The approaches range from linguistic diagnostics and related methodologies to the most accredited interpretative theories on the evolution of New Englishes. The book includes a section on emerging varieties of English in new media, and special focus has been given to those new varieties of Philippine and Nigerian English spoken in a non-canonical post-colonial context represented by the city of Turin, Italy. The result is a collection of studies that illuminate issues of language variability from different perspectives in order to contribute to the lengthy debate on language contact, diversification, speciation and standardization.

Bartlett, Tom . 2001. “Use the Road: The Appropriacy of Appropriation”. Language and Intercultural Communication 1, no. 1: 21-39. ... Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable . 2002. A History of the English Language . 5th edition ."

Introduction to Old English

An student's introduction to the first centuries in the history of the English language.

 Baugh , Albert C . and Thomas Cable (2002), A History of the English Language ( 5th edn), London: Routledge. Bliss, Alan J. (1958), The Metre of Beowulf, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Bosworth, Joseph and Thomas Northcote Toller (1898), ..."

English Historical Linguistics 2010

The use of linguistic forms derived from the lexicon denoting sacred entities is often subject to tabooing behaviour. In the 15th and 16th century phrases like by gogges swete body or by cockes bones allowed speakers to address God without really saying the name; cf. Hock (1991: 295). The religious interjections based on the phonetically corrupt gog and cock are evidenced to have gained currency in the 16th century. In the 17th century all interjections based on religious appellations ceased to appear on stage in accordance with the regulations of the Act to Rest.

 Baugh , Albert C . & Thomas Cable . 2002. A History of the English Language . ( 5th ed .) London: Routledge. Bibire, Paul. 2001. “North Sea Language Contacts in the Early Middle Ages: English and Norse”. The North Sea World in the Middle ..."

Garner's Modern American Usage

A guide to proper American English word usage, grammar, pronunciation, and style features examples of good and bad usage from the media.

In an otherwise superb history of the English language , Albert C . Baugh and Thomas Cable express pity for standard-bearing prescriptivists: Conservatives in matters oflanguage, as in politics, are hardy perennials."

Introduction to sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society. Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language in that the focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the latter's focus is on the language's effect on the society. Sociolinguistics overlaps to a considerable degree with pragmatics. It is historically closely related to linguistic anthropology and the distinction between the two fields has even been questioned recently. It also studies how language varieties differ between groups separated by certain social variables, e.g., ethnicity, religion, status, gender, level of education, age, etc., and how creation and adherence to these rules is used to categorize individuals in social or socioeconomic classes. As the usage of a language varies from place to place, language usage also varies among social classes, and it is these sociolects that sociolinguistics studies. The social aspects of language were in the modern sense first studied by Indian and Japanese linguists in the 1930s, and also by Gauchat in Switzerland in the early 1900s, but none received much attention in the West until much later. The study of the social motivation of language change, on the other hand, has its foundation in the wave model of the late 19th century. The first attested use of the term sociolinguistics was by Thomas Callan Hodson in the title of a 1939 paper. Sociolinguistics in the West first appeared in the 1960s and was pioneered by linguists such as William Labov in the US and Basil Bernstein in the UK. For example, a sociolinguist might determine through study of social attitudes that a particular vernacular would not be considered appropriate language use in a business or professional setting. Sociolinguists might also study the grammar, phonetics, vocabulary, and other aspects of this sociolect much as dialectologists would study the same for a regional dialect. The study of language variation is concerned with social constraints determining language in its contextual environment. Code- switching is the term given to the use of different varieties of language in different social situations. William Labov is often regarded as the founder of the study of sociolinguistics. He is especially noted for introducing the quantitative study of language variation and change, making the sociology of language into a scientific discipline.

Poetics.St. Petersburg: Azbooka, 81–326. Barthes, R. 1994. “Lecture”, in Selected works: Semiotics. Poetics. Moscow: Progress, Universe, 545–569. Baugh , Albert C .; Cable , Thomas (2002). A History of the English Language ( 5th ..."