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Tables of Contents for Cambridge History of the English Language
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
x
1
List of tables
xi
1
List of contributors
xii
1
General Editor's preface
xiii
4
Editor's acknowledgements
xvii
1
Contributors' acknowledgements
xviii
1
List of abbreviations
xix
 
1 INTRODUCTION
1
56
Suzanne Romaine
1.1 From Old English to New Englishes: unity in diversity?
1
5
1.2 1776 and after: an age of revolutions and empires
6
16
1.3 Shifting centres of gravity and the notion of a common core
22
26
1.4 Language, nation, and identity: staking a claim on the past and future
48
6
1.5 Conclusion: a remarkable success story?
54
2
Further reading
56
1
2 VOCABULARY
57
35
John Algeo
2.1 The study of the English vocabulary
57
4
2.2 The growth of the vocabulary
61
5
2.3 Creating as a source of new words
66
1
2.4 Shifting as a source of new words
66
5
2.5 Shortening as a source of new words
71
3
2.6 Composing as a source of new words
74
2
2.7 Blending as a source of new words
76
1
2.8 Borrowing as a source of new words
76
6
2.9 Recent neologisms
82
6
2.10 Vocabulary change as mirror of cultural change
88
3
Further reading
91
1
3 SYNTAX
92
238
David Denison
3.1 Introduction
92
4
3.2 The noun phrase
96
34
3.3 The verbal group
130
82
3.4 Elements of the clause
212
23
3.5 Structure of the clause
235
20
3.6 Composite sentences
255
57
Notes
312
11
Textual sources
323
3
Further reading
326
4
4 ONOMASTICS
330
43
Richard Coates
Preamble
330
2
4.1 Sources for British names
332
4
4.2 Scholarship
336
3
4.3 Personal names
339
9
4.4 Surnames
348
2
4.5 Place-names
350
15
4.6 Street-names
365
5
4.7 Other categories of nameables
370
1
4.8 Academic writings on names
371
1
Further Reading
371
2
5 PHONOLOGY
373
163
Michael K. C. MacMahon
5.1 The soundscapes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
373
2
5.2 The historical sources and their interpretation
375
6
5.3 Methods of phonetic/phonological analysis
381
1
5.4 Standards and styles of pronunciation
382
21
5.5 Vowel systems
403
15
5.6 Vowel phonotactics (structural)
418
20
5.7 Vowel phonotactics (lexical-incidental)
438
10
5.8 Vowel realisations
448
19
5.9 Consonant systems
467
2
5.10 Consonant phonotactics (structural)
469
14
5.11 Consonant phonotactics (lexical-incidental)
483
3
5.12 Consonant realisations
486
6
5.13 Lexical stress
492
25
5.14 Intonation and rhythm
517
2
5.15 Voice qualities
519
1
5.16 Conclusions
520
2
Notes
522
13
Further reading
535
1
6 ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE
536
53
Edward Finegan
6.1 Introduction
536
4
6.2 First period: mid-eighteenth century-1830
540
17
6.3 Second period: 1830-1930
557
22
6.4 Third period: 1930-present
579
6
6.5 Conclusions and prospects
585
2
Further reading
587
2
7 LITERARY LANGUAGE
589
104
Sylvia Adamson
7.1 Introduction
589
9
7.2 Breaking the standard
598
16
7.3 Breaking the pentameter
614
16
7.4 The breaking of hypotaxis
630
16
7.5 The problem of metaphor
646
15
7.6 Self-expression and self-representation
661
18
7.7 CODA: the two revolutions and the literary common core
679
2
Further reading
681
3
Key to the numbered examples
684
5
Key to the cited authors
689
4
Glossary of linguistic terms
693
15
Bibliography
708
54
Index
762