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Title:
The English language
Author:
Burchfield, R. W.
ISBN:
9780198604037
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Physical Description:
viii, 208 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:
Oxford language classics

Oxford language classics.
General Note:
Originally published: 1985. Reissued with corrections.
Contents:
Phonetic Symbols -- Some Preliminary Considerations -- From Runes to Printing -- From William Caxton to George Washington: 1476 to 1776 -- The Disjunctive Period: 1776 to the Present Day -- Literature, Ritualistic Works, and Language -- The Recording of English in Dictionaries and Grammars -- Vocabulary -- Pronunciation and Spelling -- The Syntactical Arrangement of Words -- Dispersed Forms of English -- Afterword
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