A Companion to the History of the English Language
- Author / Editor
- Momma, Haruko, and Michael Matto, eds.
A Companion to the History of the English Language
- Published
- Malden, Mass.; and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xxxiii, 690 pp.
- Series
- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, no. 54.
- Description
- Fifty-nine essays by various authors on topics ranging from the Indo-European roots of English to linguistic theory of the twenty-first century, from "the history of the history of English" to various geographical Englishes, and from English lexicography to sociolinguistics. Recurrent references to Chaucer, with one section focusing on his use of language: John F. Plummer's "'In swich englissh as he kan': Chaucer's Literary Language" (pp. 445-54) addresses Chaucer's dialect and flexible uses of various registers. The volume includes a timeline, a glossary of linguistic terms, and an index.
- Contributor
- Matto, Michael ed.
- Plummer, John F.
- Alternative Title
- "'In swich englissh as he kan': Chaucer's Literary Language."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies