The study of the history of the English language (HEL) encompasses a broad sweep of time and space, reaching back to the fifth century and around the globe. Fur

This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as p

Use the science of linguistics to analyse not what is expressed in a historical document but how it is expressed to shed light on historical events.Composers of

When linguistics was first established as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century, it was envisaged as an essentially historical study. Languages were