Overview
- Original text revised, substantially enlarged and reordered
Text includes a wealth of facsimiles of original documents, increased to 96 in the new edition, making the book an invaluable reference tool
Book now suitable both for use by A Level and undergraduate students and as a resource book at all levels
. Students learn to read the original manuscripts and their translations of Old, Middle and Early Modern English up to the present day
Popularity of the first edition and supplementary text commentary book, now combined in second edition to form a comprehensive, standalone text
Part of the book series: Studies in English Language (SEL)
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Book Title: From Old English to Standard English
Book Subtitle: A Course Book in Language Variations Across Time
Authors: Dennis Freeborn
Series Title: Studies in English Language
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26665-4
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXI, 479
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Language History