List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Key to Phonetic Symbols
Introduction: A History of English
Lynda Mugglestone
1.Preliminaries: Before English
Terry Hoad
2.Beginnings and Transitions: Old English
Susan Irvine
3.Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French
Matthew Townend
4.Middle English——Dialects and Diversity
Marilyn Corrie
From Middle to Early Modern English
Jeremy J.Smith
6.Restructuring Renaissance English
April McMahon
7.Mapping Change in Tudor English
Terttu Nevalainen
8.The Babel of Renaissance English
Paula Blank
9.English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
10.English in the Nineteenth Century
Lynda Mugglestone
11.Modern Regional English in the British Isles
Clive Upton
12.English Among the Languages
Richard W Bailey
13.English World-wide in the Twentieth Century
Tom McArthur
14.Into the Twenty-first Century
David Crystal
A Chronology ofEnglish
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
References
Index