Research Guides: English Language History and Linguistics: Finding Books

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English language--Etymology
English language--Grammar, Historical
English language--History
English language--Idioms
English language--Jargon
English language--Middle English, 1100-1500
English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100
English language--Slang
English language--Social aspects.
English language--Standardization
English language--Terms and phrases
English language--United States
English language--United States--Usage
English language--Usage
English language--Variation.
Linguistics

Selected Books

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Evolving English by David Crystal
Call Number: PE1075 .C785 2010 (Moore Library-Stacks)

ISBN: 9780712350990
A biography of the English language by C.M. Millward
Call Number: PE1075 .M64 1996 (Moore Library- Stacks)

ISBN: 9780155016453
Inventing English : a portable history of the language by Seth Lerer
Call Number: PE1075 .L47 2007 (Moore Library- Stacks)

ISBN: 9780231137942
English : one tongue, many voices by Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech.
Call Number: PE1700 .S83 2006 (Moore Library-Stacks)

ISBN: 9781403918307
English in modern times, 1700-1945 by Joan C. Beal
Call Number: PE1083 .B42 2004 (Moore Library- Stacks)

ISBN: 9780340761175
The Cambridge history of the English language
Call Number: PE1072 .C36 1992 v. 1-6 (Moore Library- Stacks)

ISBN: 9780521264747
A history of the English language by Albert C. Baugh, Thomas Cable
Call Number: PE1075 .B3 2002 (Moore Library- Stacks)

ISBN: 9780130151667

5th ed.
Approaches to English historical linguistics; an anthology by Roger Lass
Call Number: PE1075 .L33 (Moore Library-Stacks)

ISBN: 0030745055
English as a Lingua Franca : attitude and identity by Jennifer Jenkins
Call Number: PE2751 .J462 2007 (Moore Library-Stacks)

ISBN: 9780194422376