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- Title
- Biography of the English Language
- Author
- C.M. Millward
- Publisher
- Holt Rinehart & Winston (edition )
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0030594316
- ISBN 13
- 9780030594311
The second edition of A Biography of the English Language continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural events; and the English of the past has everywhere left its traces on present-day English. By uncovering the language's past, one can better communicate with it.
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About the Author
PHD in linguistics and English from Brown University; taught at U of Edinburgh, Univerisite Paul Valery in Monpelllier, France, and at Huazhon U of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China; recipient of many awards including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a Humanities Foundation grant. She was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and was a member of many professional organizations.
Ph.D. from Univ of Iowa; now Director of Medieval Studies at the University of Mississippi.
Ph.D. from Univ of Iowa; now Director of Medieval Studies at the University of Mississippi.
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