A study of the change in English prose from strong oral influence to a new emphasis on formality and precision.

A Companion to the History of the English Language addresses the linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches to language study. The first text to offe

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

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, a

The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, which reference sources still call the first En