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Tables of Contents for The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Modelling English
2
2
PART I THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH
4
112
The origins of English
6
2
Old English
8
22
Early borrowings
8
1
Runes
9
1
The Old English corpus
10
2
Literary texts
12
2
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
14
2
Spelling
16
2
Sounds
18
2
Grammar
20
2
Vocabulary
22
2
Late borrowings
24
4
Dialects
28
2
Middle English
30
26
French and English
30
2
The transition from Old English
32
2
The Middle English corpus
34
2
Literary texts
36
2
Chaucer
38
2
Spelling
40
2
Sounds
42
2
Grammar
44
2
Vocabulary
46
2
Latin borrowings
48
2
Dialects
50
2
Middle Scots
52
2
The origins of Standard English
54
2
Early Modern English
56
20
Caxton
56
2
Transitional texts
58
2
Renaissance English
60
1
The inkhorn controversy
61
1
Shakespeare
62
2
The King James Bible
64
2
Spelling and regularization
66
2
Punctuation
68
1
Sounds
69
1
Grammar
70
2
Vocabulary
72
1
The Academy debate
73
1
Johnson
74
2
Modern English
76
16
Transition
76
1
Grammatical trends
77
1
Prescriptivism
78
2
American English
80
4
Breaking the rules
84
2
Variety awareness
86
1
Scientific language
87
1
Literary voices
88
1
Dickens
89
1
Recent trends
90
2
World English
92
24
The New World
92
1
American dialects
93
2
Canada
95
1
Black English Vernacular
96
2
Australia
98
1
New Zealand
99
1
South Africa
100
1
South Asia
101
1
West Africa
102
1
East Africa
103
1
South-East Asia and the South Pacific
104
2
A world language
106
2
Numbers of speakers
108
2
Standard English
110
2
The future of English
112
2
English threatened and as threat
114
2
PART II ENGLISH VOCABULARY
116
72
The nature of the lexicon
118
6
Lexemes
118
1
The size of the English lexicon
119
1
Abbreviations
120
2
Proper names
122
1
The size of a person's lexicon
123
1
The sources of the lexicon
124
12
Native vocabulary
124
2
Foreign borrowings
126
2
Word-Formation
128
2
Unusual structures
130
2
Lexical creation
132
2
Literary neologism
134
2
Etymology
136
20
Lexical history
136
2
Semantic change
138
1
Folk etymology
139
1
Place names
140
8
Surnames
148
2
First names
150
2
Nicknames
152
2
Object names
154
1
Eponyms
155
1
The structure of the lexicon
156
14
Semantic structure
156
1
Semantic fields
157
1
Dictionary and thesaurus
158
2
Collocations
160
2
Lexical predictability
162
1
Idioms
163
1
Synonyms
164
1
Antonyms
165
1
Hyponyms
166
1
Incompatibility
167
1
Other sense relations
168
2
Lexical dimensions
170
18
Loaded vocabulary
170
2
Taboo
172
1
Swearing
173
1
Jargon
174
2
Doublespeak
176
1
Political correctness
177
1
Catch phrases
178
1
Vogue words
179
1
Slogans
180
1
Graffiti
181
1
Slang
182
2
Quotations
184
1
Proverbs
184
1
Archaisms
185
1
Cliches
186
1
Last words
187
1
PART III ENGLISH GRAMMAR
188
46
Grammatical mythology
190
8
The nature of grammar
190
1
Knowing vs knowing about
191
1
Traditional grammar
192
2
Prescriptive grammar
194
2
The 20th-century legacy
196
1
The main branches of grammar
197
1
The structure of words
198
8
Morphology
198
1
Suffixation
198
1
Adjectives
199
1
Nouns
200
3
The apostrophe
203
1
Pronouns
203
1
Verbs
204
2
Word classes
206
8
Parts of speech
206
1
Traditional definitions
206
1
New classes
207
1
Nouns
208
2
Pronouns
210
1
Adjectives
211
1
Adverbs
211
1
Verbs
212
1
Prepositions
213
1
Conjunctions
213
1
Interjections
213
1
The structure of sentences
214
20
Spoken and written syntax
214
2
Types of sentence
216
1
Sentence structure
217
1
Sentence functions
218
2
Clause elements and types
220
2
Phrases
222
1
Noun phrases
222
2
Verb phrases
224
2
Multiple sentences
226
2
Abbreviation
228
1
Disjuncts and comment clauses
229
1
Reporting speech
230
1
Sentence information
231
1
Beyond the sentence
232
2
PART IV SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ENGLISH
234
50
The sound system
236
20
Phonetics and phonology
236
1
Vocal organs
236
1
Vowels
237
5
Consonants
242
4
Syllables
246
1
Connected speech
247
1
Prosody
248
2
Sound symbolism
250
4
Pronunciation in practice
254
2
The writing system
256
28
Graphetics and graphology
257
1
Typography
257
1
The alphabet
258
7
Properties of letters
265
1
Letter frequency
265
1
Letter distribution
266
2
Letter symbolism
268
1
Analysing handwriting
269
1
Graphetic variety
270
2
Spelling
272
2
Sources of irregularity
274
2
Spelling reform
276
2
Punctuation
278
2
The development of the writing system
280
4
PART V USING ENGLISH
284
140
Varieties of discourse
286
12
Structure vs use
286
1
Pragmatic issues
286
1
The nature of discourse
287
1
Microlinguistic studies
288
2
Texts and varieties
290
1
Speech vs writing
291
1
Mixed medium
292
2
Monologue and dialogue
294
4
Regional variation
298
66
Accent and dialect
298
1
International and Intranational
299
1
A day in the life of the language
300
6
American and British English
306
6
American dialects
312
6
British dialects
318
10
Scotland
328
6
Wales
334
2
Ireland
336
4
Canada
340
4
Caribbean
344
2
Pidgins and creoles
346
4
Australia
350
4
New Zealand
354
2
South Africa
356
2
New Englishes
358
6
Social variation
364
30
Sociolinguistic perspective
364
1
Received Pronunciation
365
1
Prescriptive attitudes
366
2
Gender
368
2
Occupation
370
 
Religion
37
335
Science
372
2
Law
374
3
Plain English
377
1
Politics
378
2
News media
380
2
Journalism
382
2
Broadcasting
384
1
Weather forecasting
385
1
Sports commentary
386
2
Advertising
388
2
Restricted varieties
390
2
New varieties
392
2
Personal variation
394
30
Individual differences
394
1
Deviance
395
1
Word games
396
4
Rule-breaking varieties
400
3
The edges of language
403
1
Jokes and puns
404
3
Comic alphabets
407
3
Variety humour
410
2
Literary freedom
412
2
Phonetics and phonology
414
2
Graphetics and graphology
416
2
Grammar and lexicon
418
2
Discourse and variety
420
3
Stylometry
423
1
PART VI LEARNING ABOUT ENGLISH
424
23
Learning English as a mother tongue
426
10
Child language acquisition
426
1
Literacy
427
1
Grammatical development
428
2
Early words and sounds
430
2
Reading and writing
432
2
Insufficient language
434
1
Language disability
434
2
New ways of studying English
436
11
Technological revolution
436
2
Corpus studies
438
2
National and international corpora
440
2
Dictionaries
442
2
Innovations
444
2
Sources and resources
446
1
APPENDICES
447
39
I Glossary
448
13
II Special symbols and abbreviations
461
1
III References
462
5
IV Further reading
467
3
V Index of linguistic items
470
2
VI Index of authors and personalities
472
3
VII Index of topics
475
11
Acknowledgements
486