Provides a history of the English language.

From Simon & Schuster, Origins of the English Language is Joseph M. Williams' exploration of social and linguistic history. In this book, author Joseph Williams

The English Language is an essential survey of the development of the language from its Indo-European past to the present day. Now in a third edition, this text

Volume two of this set covers the Middle English Period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyses developments in the language from the Norman Conque