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• Author/Creator:Lerer, Seth, 1955-
  
• Title:Inventing English [electronic resource] : a portable history of the language / Seth Lerer.
  
• ISBN:023113794X (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780231137942 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0231510764 (e-book)
  9780231510769 (e-book)
  
• Published/Created:New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
  
• Physical Description:viii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
  
• Notes:Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
  
• Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index.
  
• Contents:Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.
  
• Subjects:English language--History.
  English language--Etymology.
  English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100.
  English language--Middle English, 1100-1500.
  Linguistics.
  
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