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The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language
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From the Book - Third edition.
Modelling English
Part I: The history of English
The origins of English
Old English
Middle English
Early modern English
Modern English
World English
Part II: English vocabulary
The nature of the lexicon
The sources of the lexicon
Etymology
The structure of the lexicon
Lexical dimensions
Part III: English grammar
Grammatical mythology
The structure of words
Word classes
The structure of sentences
Part IV: Spoken and written English
The sound system
The writing system
Part V: Using English
Varieties of discourse
Regional variation
Social variation
Personal variation
Electronic variation
Part VI: Learning about English
Learning English as a mother tongue
New ways of studying English.
From the Book
1. Modelling English
pt. I. The history of English
2. The origins of English
3. Old English
Early borrowings
Runes
The Old English corpus
Literary texts
The Anglo-Saxon chronicle
Spelling
Sounds
Grammar
Vocabulary
Late borrowings
Dialects
4. Middle English
French and English
The transition from Old English
The Middle English corpus
Literary texts
Chaucer
Spelling
Sounds
Grammar
Vocabulary
Latin borrowings
Dialects
Middle Scots
The origins of standard English
5. Early modern English
Caxton
Transitional texts
Renaissance English
The inkhorn controversy
Shakespeare
The King James bible
Spelling and regularization
Punctuation
Sounds
Grammar
Vocabulary
The academy debate
Johnson
6. Modern English
Transition
Grammatical trends
Prescriptivism
American English
Breaking the rules
Variety awareness
Scientific language
Literary voices
Dickens
Recent trends
7. World English
The new world
American dialects
Canada
Black English vernacular
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
South Asia
West Africa
East Africa
South-Est Asia and the South Pacific
A world language
Numbers of speakers
Standard English
The future of English
English threatened and as threat
pt. II. English vocabulary
8. The nature of the lexicon
Lexemes
The size of the English lexicon
Abbreviations
Proper names
The size of a person's lexicon
9. The sources of the lexicon
Native vocabulary
Foreign borrowings
Word-formation
Unusual structures
Lexical creation
Literary neologism
10. Etymology
Lexical history
Semantic change
Folk etymology
Place names
Surnames
First names
Nicknames
Object names
Eponyms
11. The structure of the lexicon
Semantic structure
Semantic fields
Dictionary and thesaurus
Collocations
Lexical predictability
Idioms
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Incompatibility
Other sense relations
12. Lexical dimensions
Loaded vocabulary
Taboo
Swearing
Jargon
Doublespeak
Political correctness
Catch phrases
Vogue words
Slogans
Graffiti
Slang
Quotations
Proverbs
Archaisms
Clichés
Last words.
pt. III. English grammar
13. Grammatical mythology
The nature of grammar
Knowing vs knowing about
Traditional grammar
Prescriptive grammar
The 20th-century legacy
The main branches of grammar
14. The structure of words
Morphology
Suffixation
Adjectives
Nouns
The apostrophe
Pronouns
Verbs
15. Word classes
Parts of speech
Traditional definitions
New classes
Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Verbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
16. The structure of sentences
Spoken and written syntax
Types of sentence
Sentence structure
Sentence functions
Clause elements and types
Phrases
Noun phrases
Verb phrases
Multiple sentences
Abbreviation
Disjuncts and comment clauses
Reporting speech
Sentence information
Beyond the sentence
pt. IV. Spoken and written English
17. The sound system
Phonetics and phonology
Vocal organs
Vowels
Consonants
Syllables
Connected speech
Prosody
Sound symbolism
Pronunciation in practice
18. The writing system
Graphetics and graphology
Typography
The alphabet
Properties of letters
Letter frequency
Letter distribution
Letter symbolism
Analysing handwriting
Graphetic variety
Spelling
Sources of irregularity
Spelling reform
Punctuation
The development of the writing system.
pt. V. Using English
19. Varieties of discourse
Structure vs use
Pragmatic issues
The nature of discourse
Microlinguistic studies
Texts and varieties
Speech vs writing
Mixed medium
Monologue and dialogue
20. Regional variation
Accent and dialect
International and intranational
A day in the life of the language
American and British English
American dialects
British dialects
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
Canada
Caribbean
Pidgins and Creoles
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
New Englishes
21. Social variation
Sociolinguistic perspective
Received pronunciation
Prescriptive attitudes
Gender
Occupation
Religion
Science
Law
Plain English
Politics
News media
Journalism
Broadcasting
Weather forecasting
Sports commentary
Advertising
Restricted varieties
New varieties
22. Personal variation
Individual differences
Deviance
Word games
Rule-breaking varieties
The edges of language
Jokes and puns
Comic alphabets
Variety humour
Literary freedom
Phonetics and phonology
Graphetics and graphology
Grammar and lexicon
Discourse and variety
Stylometry
pt. VI. Learning about English
23. Learning English as a mother tongue
Child language acquisition
Literacy
Grammatical development
Early words and sounds
Reading and writing
Insufficient language
Language disability
24. New ways of studying English
Technological revolution
Corpus studies
National and international corpora
Dictionaries
Innovations
Sources and resources
Appendices
I. Glossary
II. Special symbols and abbreviations
III. References
IV. Further reading
V. Index of linguistic items
VI. Index of authors and personalities
VII. Index of topics.
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9780521596558
9781108423595
9780521401791
9781108437738
9781108423595
9780521401791
9781108437738
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