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Our marvelous native tongue : the life and times of the English language
- Title
- Our marvelous native tongue : the life and times of the English language / Robert Claiborne.
- Author
- Claiborne, Robert.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Times Books, ©1983.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PE1075 .C47 1983 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 339 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Recounts a history of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the present.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- The importance of speaking English: a most extraordinary language -- The common source: Indo-European and its speakers -- The first conquest: from the Danube to the Baltic -- The second conquest: from West Germanic to Old English -- The third conquest: English and French -- The first flowering: Chaucer, Caxton and "good English" -- "The verie height": Shakespeare and the King James Bible -- A search for order: trying to make English behave -- Only in America: English leaps the Atlantic -- Our infinite variety: modern variations on an old theme -- Not everybody's English: some remarkable vocabularies -- From here on in: English today and tomorrow.
- ISBN
- 0812910389
- 9780812910384
- 0812916352
- 9780812916355
- LCCN
- 82040363
- OCLC
- ocm09280461
- 9280461
- SCSB-8860259
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library