Autorentext

Thomas Cable is the Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair Emeritus in English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Klappentext

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the 7th 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 new edition has been revised alongside the textbook and includes new exercises to accompany the latest edition of the classic textbook. This workbook is an invaluable companion for all History of English Language courses.

Inhalt

Preface Maps 0 The Sounds of English 1 English Present and Future 2 The Indo-European Family of Languages 3 Old English 4 Foreign Influences on Old English 5 The Norman Conquest and the Subjection of English, 1066-1200 6 The Reestablishment of English, 1200-1500 7 Middle English 8 The Renaissance, 1500-1650 9 The Appeal to Authority, 1650-1800 10 The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 11 The English Language in America 12 The Twenty-First Century