Thomas Cable

A Companion to Baugh and Cable's A History of the English Language (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the English Language.
Each chapter in the workbook corresponds directly to a chapter in the textbook and offers exercises, review questions, extensive supplementary examples, additional explanations and a range of sample extracts taken from texts of different periods. An additional 'pre-chapter' on the sounds of English also provides phonetic information and exercises that will prove useful throughout the book.
This third edition has been revised alongside the textbook and includes new exercises to accompany the sections on Gender Issues and Linguistic Change, and African American Vernacular English.
This workbook is an invaluable companion for all History of English Language courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134425365
• Artikelnr.: 39906976

Autorenporträt

Thomas Cable

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Maps; 0 The Sound of English: 0.1 Phonetic Symbols
0.2 The Vocal Tract
0.3 English Consonants
0.4 English Vowels
0.5 Transcript; 1 English Present and Future: 1.1 Questions for Review; 2 The Indo-European Family of Languages: 2.1 Questions for Review
2.2 Grimm's Law
2.3 The Indo European Family
2.4 The Indo-Europeans; 3 Old English: 3.1 Questions for Review
3.2 Old English Consonants
3.3 Old English Vowels
3.4 Old English Suprasegmentals
3.5 Old English Cases
3.6 Old English Nouns
3.7 Nouns in Sentences
3.8 Old English Adjectives
3.9 Old English Pronouns
3.10 Old Strong Verbs
3.11 Old English Syntax and Meter
3.12 The Language Illustrated; 4 Foreign Influences on Old English: 4.1 Questions for Review
4.2 Dating Latin Loanwords through Sound Changes
4.3 Scandinavian Loanwords; 5 The Norman Conquest and Subjection of English
1066-1200: 5.1 Questions for Review; 6 The Reestablishment of English
1200-1500: 6.1 Questions for Review; 7 Middle English: 7.1 Questions for Review
7.2 From Old to Middle English: Vowels
7.3 From Old to Middle English: Consonants
7.4 From Old English to Middle English: Vowel Reduction
Morphology
and Syntax in the Peterborough Chronicle
7.5 Chaucers Pronunciation
7.6 Middle English Nouns
7.7 Middle English Adjectives
7.8 Middle English Personal Pronouns
7.9 Strong and Weak Verbs in Middle English
7.10 Middle English Verbal Inflections
7.11 Middle English Dialects
7.12 A Middle English Manuscript
7.13 The Language Illustrated; 8 The Renaissance
1500-1650: 8.1 Questions for Review
8.2 Dictionaries of Hard Words
8.3 Shakespeares's Pronunciation
8.4 The Great Vowel Shift
8.5 Nouns
8.9 Strong and Weak Verbs
8.10 Questions
Negatives and the Auxiliary Do
8.11 The Language Illustrated; 9 The Appeal to Authority
1650-1800: 9.1 Questions for Review
9.2 Johnson's Dictionary
9.3 Universal Grammar; 10 The Nineteenth Century and After: 10.1 Questions for Review
10.2 Self-Explaining Compounds
10.3 Coinages
10.4 Slang
10.5 English as a World Language
10.6 Pidgins and Creoles
10.7 Gender Issues and Pronominal Change
10.8 The Language Illustrated; 11 The English Language in America: 11.1 Questions for Review
11.2 The American Dialects
11.3 African American Vernacular English: Phonology
11.4 African American Vernacular English: Grammar
11.5 Present Differentiation of Vocabulary
11.6 Dictionary of American Regional English
DARE
11.7 The Language Illustrated.