Companion to Baugh and Cable's History of the English Langu
Table of contents:
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.
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.
This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the
fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of
the English Language.
