Why more histories of the English Language?

Title
Why more histories of the English Language?
Publication Date
1995
Author(s)
Ryan, John S
Type of document
Review
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Sheffield, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT)
Place of publication
United Kingdom
UNE publication id
une:11404
Abstract
Review of Hogg, Richard M., 'The Cambridge History of the English Language', vol. I, 'The Beginnings to 1066', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, xxiii, 609pp., £60.00. and Baugh, A.C., and T. Cable, 'A History of the English Language', London, Routledge, 4th edn., 1993, xvi, 444 pp., £12.99 paper. The initial volume here is the first in what is "the first multi-volume work to provide a full account of the history of English". Like the other five it aims to give an authoritative coverage of areas of central linguistic interest and concern and adequate treatment to more specialised topics relating to English. Thus there are here, after Richard Ho 's introductory chapter, the following comprehensive surveys: "The Place of English in Germanic and Indo-European", by Alfred Bammesberger; "Phonology and Morphology", by the named editor; "Syntax", by Elizabeth Closs Traugott; "Semantics and Vocabulary", by Dieter Kastovsky; "Old English Dialects", by Thomas E. Toon; "Onomastics" (with as generous a section on anthroponymy as that on the more obvious toponymy), by Cecily Clark; and "Literary Language", by Malcolm R. Godden - the whole followed by a generous glossary of linguistic terms, and a bibliography which is particularly rich as to secondary sources.
Link
Citation
Lore and Language, 13(2), p. 205-208
ISSN
0307-7144
Start page
205
End page
208

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