This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

This second edition of The History of the English Language- A Sourcebook provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to the origins and development of the Eng

In today’s culturally diverse classrooms, students possess and use many culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse English language varieties that may dif

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular seri