Volume II deals with the Middle English period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyzes developments in the language from the Norman Conquest to the

Leading scholars examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurol

This authoritative and wide-ranging book, first published in 2003, examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from its origins in an

Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.

Discusses all aspects of language change as a dynamic process against a background of the differing approaches of the structuralist, neogrammarian and transform