A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh

**NOT FOR SALE IN THE USA, CANADA OR THE PHILIPPINES** A History of the English Language explores the linguistic and cultural development of English from the Roman conquest of England to the present day to provide a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of its history. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Balanced and wide-ranging, this textbook is a must-read for any student studying the history of the English language New features of the sixth edition include: * an additional chapter titled 'English in the Twenty-first Century', which examines the future of English and other global languages and includes an assessment of Chinese as a world language * an in-depth treatment of phonological changes, such as the placement of the Great Vowel Shift as a bridge between Middle English and Renaissance English * further coverage of corpus linguistics, especially for Renaissance English * fresh sections on accent and register * a new survey of the recent debate between 'creolists' and 'neo-Anglicists' on the origins of African American Vernacular English.

This best-selling classic textbook has been revised and updated and encourages the reader to develop both an understanding of present-day English and an enlightened attitude toward the issues affecting the language today.

Albert C.A History of the English Language explores the linguistic and cultural development of English from the Roman conquest of England to the present day to provide a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of its history.Review of the second edition (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957), the last by Baugh alone.

Journal of English and Germanic Philology. of Baugh, A History of the English Language'. Appleton-Century Company, 1935) - six editions to 2013, the last four by Baugh and Thomas Cable A Literary History Of England (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948), editor - Baugh wrote the second of four parts, 'The Middle English Period, 1100–1500'.He was survived by his wife, formerly Nita Scudder, and two sons. īaugh died at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital on Maat age 90. īaugh was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1946. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and taught in its English department from 1912, as a reader, to 1961. It was revised by Baugh for a second edition published in 1957 and it remains in print, edited by Thomas Cable (by Baugh and Cable from the third edition, 1978).īaugh was born in Philadelphia, earned his Master of Arts (M.A.) and Ph.D. His A History of the English Language was first published in 1935 and praised as 'worthy to take a place with the other great histories of single languages'. Albert Croll Baugh (Febru– March 21, 1981) was a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, best known as the author of a textbook for History of the English language (HEL).

A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh