Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Phonology.
3. Writing.
4. Language Families and Indo-European Languages.
5. Old English (AD 450 - 1100).
6. Middle English (1100 - 1500).
7. Early Modern English (1500 - 1800).
8. Present-Day English (1800 - ).
9. English Around the World.

About the Author

PHD in linguistics and English from Brown University; taught at U of Edinburgh, Univerisite Paul Valery in Monpelllier, France, and at Huazhon U of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China; recipient of many awards including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a Humanities Foundation grant. She was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and was a member of many professional organizations. Ph.D. from Univ of Iowa; now Director of Medieval Studies at the University of Mississippi.

Reviews

�The book is very well written with a very appealing �voice� and is very clear in its explanations. It focuses appropriately on the most significant changes in the history of English.�

�The text introduces concepts basic to the study of the development of any language, and then uses the concepts as a lens to specifically view the developmental periods of English.�