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Language: English
Published by Cengage Learning, 1996
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- Title
- A Biography of the English Language
- Author
- C.M. Millward
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0155016458
- ISBN 13
- 9780155016453
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Item weight
- 1.72 pounds
The second edition of A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural events; and the English of the past has everywhere left its traces on present-day English. By uncovering the language's past, one can better communicate with it.
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?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.?
"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."
"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 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.-
?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.?
"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."
"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 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.-
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