《從古代英語到標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語》是“當(dāng)代國外語言學(xué)與應(yīng)用語言學(xué)文庫”系列叢書之一。本書以歷史文本為基礎(chǔ)，通過對歷史文本的介紹、闡釋和評論，描述英語的演變。 This practical and informative course book is a fascinating， visual volume which leads the student through the development of the language from Old English， through Middle and Early Modern English to the establishment of standard english in the eighteenth century. At the core of this subatantially expanded second edition lies a series of nearly 200 historical texts， of which more than half are reproduced in facsimile. and which illustrate the progressive changes in the language. The book is firmly based upon linguistic description. with commentaries which form a series of case studies demonstrating the evidence for language change at every level-handwriting， spelling， punctuation. vocabulary， grammar and meaning. Such a wealth of texts， as well as the structured activities and the various case studies， allow the ovlune to be used not only as a stimulating course text.， guiding students through the analysis of data. but also as a comprehensive resourec book and invaluable reference tool for teachers and students at all levels. Dennis Freeborn was formerly Head of English Language and Linguistics at the University College of Ripon York St John. and Chief examiner in A-level English L anguage. ULEAC. He is now Director of York English Language Studies Associates （YELSA）. providing A-level Englihsh language teaching materiabssand in-service courses.
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Preface by Halliday Preface to the second edition Acknowledgements Symbols Texts and facsimiles 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 English today 1.2 Studying variety across time in language 1.3 How has the English language changed 1.4 How can we learn about Old English and later changes in the language 1.5 Changes of meaning - the semantic level 2 THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS BROUGHT TO BRITAIN 2.1 Roman Britain 2.2 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 2.3 How the English language came to Britain 3 OLD ENGLISH I 3.1 Written Old English 3.2 Dialects and political boundaries 3.3 Danish and Norwegian Vikings 3.4 Effects of Viking settlement on the English language 3.S The Norman Conquest 4 OLD ENGUSH II 4.1 The language of Old English poetry 4.2 0E prose 4.3 0E grammar 4.4 Latin loan-words in DE 4.5 ON Ioan-wordsin DE 4.6 Early French loan-words 5 FROM OLD ENGLISH TO MIDDLE ENGLISH 5.1 The evidence for linguistic change 5.2 The Norman Conquest and the English language 5.3 The earliest 12th-century Middle English text 5.4 The book called Ormulum 3.5 12th-century loan-words 6 EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH - 12th CENTURY 6.1 Evidence of language change from late DE to early ME in La3amon''s Brut 6.2 The Owl & the Nightingale 7 EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH - 13th CENTURY 7.1 The Fox and the Wolf 7.2 The South English Legendary 7.3 Aguide for anchoresses 7.4 Lyric poems 7.5 The Bestiary 7.6 The Lay of Havelok the Dane 7.7 Early 13th-century loan-words 1200-1249 8 NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN TEXTS COMPARED 8.1 Cursor MundJ - a history of the world 8.2 Later 13th-centuryloan-words 1250-1299 THE 14th CENTURY- SOUTHERN AND 9 KENTISH DIALECTS 9.1 The dialect areas of Middle English 9.2 How to describe dialect differences 9.3 A South Eastern or Kentish dialect 9.4 An early South West dialect 9.5 A later 14th-century SouthWest dialect 9.6 Loan-words 1300-1319 10 THE 14th CENTURY- NORTHERN DIALECTS 10.1 A 14th-century Scots English dialect 10.2 Another Northern dialect - York 10.3 The York Plays 10.4 Northern and Midland dialects compared 10.5 Chaucer and the Northern dialect 10.6 Loan-words 1320-1339 THE 14th CENTURY- WEST MIDLANDS DIALECTS 11.1 A North-West Midlands dialect - Sir Gawayn and pe Grene Kn t 11.2 A South-West Midlands dialect - Piers Plowman 11.3 Loan-words 1340-1359 12 THE 14th CENTURY- EAST MIDLANDS AND LONDON DIALECTS 12.1 The origins of present-day Standard English 12.2 A South-East Midlands dialect - Mondeville''sTravels 12.3 The London dialect - Thomas Usk 12.4 Loan-words 1360-1379 13 THE LONDON DIALECT-CHAUCER, LATE 14th CENTURY 13.1 Chaucer''s prose writing 13.2 Chaucer''s verse 13.3 Editing atext 13.4 Loan-words 1380-1399 14 EARLY MODERN ENGLISH I-THE ISth CENTURY 14.1 The beginnings of a standard language 14.2 Early 15th-century East Midlands dialect - The Bake of Margery Kempe 14.3 Later 15th-century East Midlands dialect - the Paston letters 14.4 Late 15th-century London English - William Caxton 14.5 The medieval tales of King Arthur 14.6 Late 15th-century London dialect - the Cely letters 14.7 15th-century loan-words 15 EARLY MODERN ENGLISH II-THE 16th CENTURY i 15.1 The Lisle Letters 15.2 Formal prose in the 15305 15.3 A different view on new words 15.4 John Hart''s An Orthographie 15.5 The Great Vowel Shift 15.6 Punctuation in 16th-century texts 15.7 Loan-words 1500-1549 16 EARLY MODERN ENGLISH III-THE 16th CENTURY ii 16.1 The development of the standard language 16.2 Evidence for some 16th-century varieties of English 16.3 English at the end of the 16th century 16.4 Loan-words 1550-1599 17 EARLY MODERN ENGLISH IV-THE 17th CENTURY i 17.1 Evidence for changes in pronunciation 17.2 SirThomas Browne 17.3 George Fox''s Journal 17.4 John Milton 17.5 John Evelyn''s Diary 17.6 The Royal Society and prose style 17.7 Loan-words 1600-1649 18 EARLY MODERN ENGLISH V-THE 17th CENTURY ii 18.1 John Bunyan 18.2 Spelling and pronunciation at the end of the 17th century 18.3 John Dryden 18.4 North RidingYorkshire dialect in the 1680s 18.5 Loan-words 1650-1699 19 MODERN ENGLISH-THE 18th CENTURY 19.1 Correcting, improving and ascertaining the language 19.2 Dr Johnson''s Dictionary of the English Language 19.3 The perfection of the language 19.4 ''The Genius of the Language'' 19.5 Bishop Lowth''s Grammar 19.6 ''The depraved language of the common People'' 19.7 ''Propriety & perspicuity of language'' 19.8 Language and social class 19.9 William Cobbett and the politics of language 19.10 18th-century loan-words 20 FROM OLD ENGLISH TO MODERN ENGLISH- COMPARING HISTORICAL TEXTS 20.1 CommentaryonText 173 20.2 ''Your accent gives you away!'' 21 POSTSCRIPT I - TO THE PRESENT DAY 21.1 Some developments in the standard language since the 18th century 21.2 The continuity of prescriptive judgements on language use 21.3 The grammar of spoken English today 21.4 19th- and 20th-centuryloan-words 22 POSTSCRIPT II - ENGLISH SPELLING TODAY: A SUMMARY 22.1 The Roman alphabet and English spelling 22.2 The contrastive sounds of English 22.3 The spelling of vowels in English 22.4 The spelling of consonants in English 23 POSTSCRIPT III -THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH SPELLING: A SUMMARY 23.1 Old English 23.2 After 1066 - Middle English 23.3 Early Modern English 23.4 Correct spelling today Bibliography Index 文庫索引
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